This is an analysis of the poem Ballad: Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorree that begins with:
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'Are you ready for your steeple-chase, Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorree?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXaaX X XaaX X XXaX X XaaX X aaaaX XaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,5,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11101110101011 1010101010101 1101110101110 1101010110101 01110111110111 10101100 1 1101110101011 1101010110111 110110100010111 11011101111111 1 101101001011 011101001110 11110101110111 01111101111101 1 110101101011 11010101111101 11010101010111 101010111110101 1 11010101010111 11111101111110 111010101010111 111010101110101 1111010111011 11010010 1010111 11
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; barum, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you're, 'that are repeated.
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