This is an analysis of the poem Ballade: Epistre that begins with:
Have pity now, have pity now on me,
If you at least would, friends of mine....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacccdbdX ececbXfbfX gXgXdfXXfX hhbaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101110111 01111101 000111011 01111001 110111101 11010101 10101111 10110110010 110011111 0111111110 101001010 10100111 11011111 10111101 1001111011 100110110 0111111101 110111111 011111011 0111111110 111100101 10010111 10101111001 1110010101 111111111 0111110101 10111110 1011110101 0110111101 0111111110 10011111 101101111 10100111101 1101011011 11111111 0111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 365
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, him, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word villon at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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