This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of The New Arrival that begins with:

IT isn't the blue in the skies,
Nor the song of the whispering trees, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaabaB aaaaXbaB aaaaabaBXabaB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00001001 101001001 01001101 11011011 101011001 101011011 11101101 101001011 101101001 11011100 01001101 11011001 101011011 01011101 011111111 101001011 101111101 11101001 01101111 111001011 01001011 001011111 01101111 101001011 1111011 101011011 11101011 101001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; my, or, of, i are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word now at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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