This is an analysis of the poem A New Forest Ballad that begins with:
Oh she tripped over Ocknell plain,
And down by Bradley Water;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb deXe cfgf ehah iccX gjcj aaka cjkj Ahgh aada aiai Alal ggXg acac cchc X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 1111010 1010110101 1101010 111110111 110111 1110100111 011111 1100101111 11011110 11110111 0101010 11110101 110111 10111101 011111 11011111 011111 1010010110 1100110 01110101 010101 11111101 0011101 01010111 010111 110101111 010101 010010111 010101 11010111 110101 11011101 110111 01110101 110111 111111011 11001001 110110101 1110111 1111111011 1111001 010110101 0110101 11011101 110111 01110101 111100 11110101 110101 101110101 100111 01110101 010111 111110101 110111 11110101 110111 1101110101 01011001 001101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, token, they, wrestled are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, 'a, the, they, to are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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