This is an analysis of the poem Ballade To Our Lady that begins with:

WRITTEN FOR HIS MOTHER
Dame du ciel, regents terrienne, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XX XX bbb ccXcDeffXfefdfD gcgccdXddd cacdccd Xe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,3,15,10,7,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101010 1011010 100110010 100101111000 11000101010 1111011111 0101010101 01001100100 1111010111 1101110101 0101111101 11111101111 10001110111 1011111110 101101110 11001011011 1101001100 11010101101 1001010101 1111011111 1101111111 011110001 10001110111 0100110111 1111010101 0111010101 01010111101 1111111111 1101010101 11110111010 10111101011 11110101101 1001110111 11001010111 11001100100 11000110101 1111101011 10001011111 1110111101 1001110111 101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, that, to are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word die at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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