This is an analysis of the poem Peninsular Ballads: Prologue that begins with:
This is the lot of the English; - in many a page it is written, -
To weep for a loved one that sleeps in a grave that is far o'er the wave;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded fdfd eaea ghgh iaia
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00010010010010010 011011110011011001 1011001010010010 1001100001001101 10010010010110110 111110010010110010 11010110010110110 1001011011001001 1111011011011000010 110100111101001 1111111010110110 100100101001001 110101111110011110 1011001011001001 10010111011111110 1001011011001001 11010110011110010 1001001011111011 11111110010110010 1111001001011011 11110111101100100 1001101001001101 11110111101100100 1111001011001101 00010010110010110 1001101001001101 1101010011010010110 1001101001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, of, thy, not, for, our, names, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, names are repeated.
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- summary of Peninsular Ballads: Prologue;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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