This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad that begins with:
In a costly palace Youth goes clad in gold;
In a wretched workhouse Age's limbs are cold:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd Xeff ccgg eehh ffdd aaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 00101011101 00101010111 1110111010010 11110100101010 001010101101 11100100010101 01011001001 11010101011 00101010110 10100101111111 001010010001 11010101110001 001010001001 111010101010010 001010111010 11010101111110 00101010101 00101010101 1010101111101 1100111111101 00101010101 0010110110001 00101010101 001111011011 01101111101 011110100100101 110101001110 10101001110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase in connects the lines.
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- summary of A Ballad;
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- idea of the verse;
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