This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of The Proverbs that begins with:
So rough the goat will scratch, it cannot sleep.
So often goes the pot to the well that it breaks....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabccdeC cffeXagC fffdcXhC dfbhiiXC XXXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010101 110101001101 111110001 11001100010 10001101 1110111010 111011101 11111001 111111101010 100110101011 1111011011 110011111010 1110111101 1111011101 1010010111011 11111001 11101110 11010111010 111101001 110101011001 111111111010 1100111110011 11101111101 11111001 1111110101 111111111 11011111011 1010110100 1011110101 111111111 1101101 11111001 111101011110 11011110110 1101101001000 111110001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, so, you, want, your, that, and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word comes at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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