This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of The Hun King's Dream that begins with:
About the dead dark o' the night,
Ere the first cock clapped his wing,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb defe efXfgf hcgXDc eXhe aXhgXg XXge ddhd ghDh XegX Xgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,6,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01011101 1011101 01111101 011101 10010101 101101 11010101 10010111 11011101 0010111 01110111 111101 1010011101 111111 11110101 110111 11010111 1111110 1011011 101111 11011111 1110010 11010111 111111 11000111 1111010 110010101 111111 11110101 111111 11001111 111001 110010011 110111 10111101 111111 01101111 011111 11110101 101101 1011011 01011 101101001 1011110 11001101 1101010 1100100110 0011101 01110111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, wind are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words 'what, there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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