This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of Freedom that begins with:

Now Mr. Jeremiah Bane
He owned a warehouse in The Lane,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXcddcXeeXXeebef gghhcXeecceeffIhXhf XXddccbbccXeffjfaff eeeeXciicceeffiekeX iijjcceeccXgfcdbdbf eXeeccaaffddaakaX aXlXcXXaccllffbaIaX aaaaXckkccaaffeeief kkddXceecceeffiaaaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,19,19,19,19,17,19,19,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 11011001 11000101 10110101 11010100 11001100 01010101 11010100 01010100 11001100 11010101 11010101 110001100 11010111 11 01 01 01 010111 10011101 11000101 11000101 11010001 11000100 10001000 11111101 11010101 01010100 01000100 01010101 01010111 11111111 11010111 11 01 01 01 010111 110100100 10110111 01110101 11011101 01000100 01000100 11011101 11011101 1101100 11001100 011101100 11010011 00010101 110100111 11 11 11 11 110011 110100101 10111101 01010101 11010101 01111000 01000100 01111111 11110111 11110100 11001100 11010101 01011101 11010111 11011101 01 11 11 01 110101 11010101 01000101 11010001 11111100 01110100 11001100 11010101 11001101 11011100 01000100 11010111 11010101 11010111 01110100 01 11 11 01 110001 11011101 01011110 11011101 01110101 11010100 01000100 11110011 01000101 11110111 10111011 11111110 11011101 10 01 11 11 111111 11010101 10010010 11010101 11110101 11010100 11001100 11110101 01110101 11010100 11001100 01111111 11011101 11010111 11110001 11 11 11 11 110001 01011101 10010111 11010101 01011011 01001000 01000100 01010101 11111101 11100100 01000100 11110101 10010001 11011101 11111010 11 01 11 01 010001 11011111 11110101 01110111 11010101 11011000 11001100 11010101 01010001 11010100 11001100 01010101 01011101 00100011 11011101 11 01 01 11 010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 507
  • Average number of words per stanza: 93
  • Amount of lines: 170
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines he is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words free, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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