This is an analysis of the poem Ballad Of Captious Critics that begins with:
Stuffed with tradition and trammels of yore,
Cramped in their studies, they sneer and scold... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbC ababXcbC abaXbcbC X XcbC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011001 101101111 1011101111 1011110101 010101101 10110101 0100111101 00101100111 111100101 1110101001 1100100111 0111011011 010110100 01100111101 1010011101 0011100111 11100101 111101101 101101101 1011001110 110110101 1010100101 1010011001 0011100111 10 11101110 111111101 1011110101 00101100111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word their is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word know at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Ballad Of Captious Critics;
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