This is an analysis of the poem Ballad Of Another Ophelia that begins with:
Oh the green glimmer of apples in the orchard,
Lamps in a wash of rain! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa baXa abab acac dede fafa fgfg bhXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100100010 100101 101101111010 1110101 10101001110 101010101 1010101101010 0101010101 1101001111 110111 111011101 1111010 101110111 1001001 1010101010111 01110101 111010111010 101110101 1010110101010 101011010111 11011000101010 10100111101 1011101000101110 10101110001 11001010101010 10101010101 1011101110101011 10101110001 1011010101110 101010101 11010111101010 011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; oh, of, cluck, like, what, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words oh, cluck, once, what are repeated.
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