This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Of A Talked-Off Ear that begins with:
Daily I listen to wonder and woe,
Nightly I hearken to knave or to ace,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbX ababbcbC ababbcbC XXbcbC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001011 1011001101 1011001011 1001001011 100100101 1011011011 101111111 100111110 1011111011 1011001101 0001001011 1001101101 101101101 11011101011 100100101 10011111 11110111001 1001001011 1011111011 1001111011 10010011 1001001001 111010111 10011111 10 111001011 1011011011 110101111 10011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, i, my, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word only is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word tell at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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