This is an analysis of the poem Ballad Of Bopard Defied that begins with:
As I came to a playing-field on happy summer day
Two strudy youths I did espy; at cricket they did play.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaX adadXXccXX ddaXeXaad afafeaccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11100101110101 11011010110101 11011101100101 11110101010101 11110101110111 01110111011101 10010101110101 100111001110101 0010101010010011001 1101111 111101 1101011 1111001 1111010111101 1111110101 1110101 1011001 111101100011 0101010101010 1111111010101 10011101110101 101010101010101 01010100111111 01110001110101 11011101111111010 11101010110101 01110000111111 0100101010111 1101111 110011 11111011 1011111 11101010110011 11011000111 1010111 0111001 111001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 596
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, his, i, love, to, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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