This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of Boding that begins with:
There are sleeping dreams and waking dreams;
What seems is not always as it seems.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bbcddcc eaeaaXffaX aaafffeee ggggbbggghhcc ddihhbbjhjciccddaa ccklmmmmbbmccchhccXecccccccmmljXj didnninhhccefaf hhXch jjocnoXcnhhXllamaaemoom ppqiiqXXffhhooffjj mmmmhdhdddnnmdmeem frrfdhhdjjhXch Xcgqqgnn bbblaabbbll HhsHhskkklmmlccm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,7,10,9,13,18,33,15,5,23,18,18,14,8,11,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111011101 110111101 1110110001110 11111100101010 1100101 0111110 01110010 110001001 1101110111101 0110101 110101 010101 0100111 011101 10111010110100 10101 10101 111111100101 11111000100 011111010101 010111010101 010101000111 0111111111 010101010101 01010110111 11100110001 10110010001 101101001 101010001011 101010011 1010101010101 11101 1010 111010 1010111 10111 1110101 1110011110 0101010 11111100101 101 0101110 1010010 10101010100 010111 110011 010101010 11101110 011 101011111 1011001 1001111 10011 111001 10101011111 1111010 1101010 01110111 101111 011111 110100 11010100011100 110111 110101 111111 01001011111 11010111 11110 11110 1101110111 110111 1101 0100111111 101111 1101001 1011 11110101 01001100 011101 11110101 0111 1100110101 010011 1011110001 11001111 1101011101 1111010011 1111 110101 1101110111 0111110100 111101 0111011101110 1101010100 1111010 1101011111 11001111 10010011101 01111101 1111 111101 11010111 101101 1101110101 110101 110101010 111101 11111111111101 11111100101 10100 10100011 1010101 1110101 10101 1110011011101 011111 010101 001001 110100 1110101 1001 0010101 10101 10101100 1011 0101001001 0010101 110111 1111101 10100 1011101 111 10111 110001 11010111001 011101 0010001 010101 1101 0100001 1111101011011 1101 011111 0101000101 1011011 110010101 010111 011001 1110101 111001 1100101 111101 1110101010101 10111001 101001001001 010111 10100101 1010101011 001000101110 00101110111 111111110 01111111010 0111111110 10110111 1111 101011 110110110010 10111 1111101 0010101 0011100101 1010101 010101 110101 110101 110101001010 11010101 1110101 1001010 1010101 101 0010101 111110 1011111 0010101101 111110 101 1011101 10101 110111 1110100111 11001 01111101 1101010 101110 01001010 0101001 0101010 11001010 1111010 01110 01110 11 1101010 1110101110101 111111010011 00100101 1110101110101 111101010111 10101101 1111110 0100010 101010 111101 1011101 111101 1100010001 111111 1110101 1111000111111
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 461
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 220
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, for, ever, of, their, in, wept, all, to, rescue, some, he, sorrow, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, their, in, i, and, all, to, some, above are repeated.
The author used the same words the, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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