This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Mystique that begins with:
The big, red-house is bare and lone
The stony garden waste and sere...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbC aXabbcbC ababbcbc Xbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 01010111 01010101 010100001 11010101 11001101 11111101 11111111 11110101 110010101 11010001 01010111 11011111 01010011 11110101 11111111 11110101 01010101 11010111 01010111 110101011 110100111 01010101 11111111 10 01110101 01010101 1001101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, my are 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 Ballade Mystique;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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