This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Of A Great Weariness that begins with:
There's little to have but the things I had,
There's little to bear but the things I bore....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbC abXbbcbC ababbcbX XXbcbC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100110111 1100110111 1100101101 1100101101 1100111001 1100110111 1000100101 10101101 1100011111 0101111111 1100110110 1100100111 1110101111 0100101101 1110101111 10101101 1101100111 0100101111 1100110111 1101110101 1111101111 0100100101 1101100111 1001011010 10 110111111 0110101111 01001001001 10101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; to, there's, i, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there's is repeated.
The author used the same word there's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word foe at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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