This is an analysis of the poem Ballad Of The Army Carts that begins with:
Wagons rattling and banging,
horses neighing and snorting,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXXcadXeXfeXdghhhXhhhXfiXhehhciXgbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100110 1010110 1010101110101 101101110100101 11111111111 1010010111101010 1001110 1010110101100110 1010011101 010110110101 01011110101 110110110101001 11110101010111010 1111111110001 00111010101110 10110100101011110 101110110010 111101000101100100 101011 1101100101010111 011110000101 01011010111010 11001001011110 101101010101 01110011010 11010110 1110010101010 101010110101111 110101100101 10001101010111 001100110 1111100100010 10101100101010011 11110100100 01111010010 11011111 100100111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1971
- Average number of words per stanza: 352
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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