This is an analysis of the poem Ballad Of The Goodly Fere that begins with:
Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all
For the priests and the gallows tree?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cbXb dbXb ceXb cbXe XXXb XbXX XbaX XbCb dbXb CXcb XbXX XbXe Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010111 10110101 110110101 1110101 1111010111 011001 10111011101 1011110011 1111110111 10100111 10111111101 01001011 1110100000011 1111100 111110101 1011111 111110101 10101111 111011101 1111100 1111100111 1110100 1100110101 1110101 0111111101 11100101 101001011101 1011001010 111110111 1101011 111110101 1101111010 010110101 1110100 111110101 11110101 111111101 1011111 010010111 1100111 111110101 1011101 1101111101 101101101 101111100 0010111 1011111100 11110100 0100110101 0100111 0111111101 1110100 1111110101 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; to, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, a are repeated.
The poet repeated the same words he, tree at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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