This is an analysis of the poem Ballad Of Women I Love that begins with:

Prudence Mears hath an old blue plate
Hid away in an oaken chest,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaabaX aaaaabaX aaaaabaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10111111 10101101 1010100101 10100101 11101011 1101101101 1010001001 1111111000 10100111 10010101 00100110101 010011111 1010011001 10101101 11111101 10111111000 010100101 110101001 010111111 0010101001 11101001101 0110111101 11111101101 10111111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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