This is an analysis of the poem Ballad Of The Gibbet that begins with:
Brothers and men that shall after us be,
Let not your hearts be hard to us:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXbddbab eaecaXbbab efXXffggbfB XacbcB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,11,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111010 11110101 110001100 11110110 111111101 1101111110 1001001110 1101111101 111111100 1111011001 1011111101 1100111101 11111101 11010100 01110011 01011010 101011101 1011001001 111111101 011101001 0110101111 01111111 1011110111 11011011 11 11111111 011110110 1001011001 111100111 111111111 111011001 10 110100101 11111100 111101011 11111100 111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 37
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word grace at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Ballad Of The Gibbet;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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