This is an analysis of the poem Ballad Of Tailor Nils that begins with:
If you were born before yesterday,
Surely you've heard about Tailor Nils, who flaunts him so gay....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX aa XX bb aX cX dd bX cX ee ff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101101 10110110111111 0011011101 1011111000101001 11010101110010 10111011011100 111101101 101001101101 100111101101 11101111111100 10111111111101 1111110111010 11111110111 1011101010101 010111101 101101110101010 0111111110101 10111111010111010 1101101111101 1111010101001 1111011011010 1101011011111110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you've, i, that, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word saw is repeated.
The author used the same words if, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Ballad Of Tailor Nils;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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