This is an analysis of the poem Ballad Of The Press-Gang At Shihao Village that begins with:
One evening I found lodging in a village where
A press-gang stole by night to seize my aging host,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbaccXcdecebcaXcXdcbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110111000101 011111011101 11001011111 10001010101 0101000110001 111101010001 111111110101 10110010011 110111010111 010101010011 110111010101 110111111111 1110101011011 010111010101 111111101101 111111010101 11001010111110 10111111111 010110010101 111101011101 010101111101 110111010001 110111010111 111111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1192
- Average number of words per stanza: 243
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, i, to are repeated.
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