This is an analysis of the poem Bridal Ballad that begins with:
The ring is on my hand,
And the wreath is on my brow;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab cbccccb dbdddXX ebeeebXebeeeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,7,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111 1010111 101101 111101 111101 1111111 1111101 111101 1011101 1011011 0010101 110101 11101011 1111101 101001101 1001111 11101011 101110 10111010 1101010 100101 1111010 1111010 1001110 111101 1111010 1111111 11101010 11101010 10110010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, me, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, lest are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, broken 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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