This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of The Time that begins with:
A man there was, called - what you will; he came of an ancient breed:
Sprung from the loins of the grey North, his sires were men indeed;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXbcX ddbb ccee ffaa aacccgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 011111101101101 10010011010101 11010101110011 00110011101111 10011101100101 101110111111111 11010101110101 010101010011001 1011100011001101 11010111110111 1110010111001 01010101110111 110101001110101 11011111100101 11100110100111 01010101101101 101111111100101 10010101110111 1101110111111 01010101101101 11110101111001 10110111010101 100100101111001 1110100101110111 1001110110111 10011100101001 01011111010111 01001111101001 01010101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, in, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, to are repeated.
The author used the same word somewhere at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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