This is an analysis of the poem Villon’s Epitaph (Ballade Of The Hanged Men) that begins with:
O brother men who after us remain,
Do not look coldly on the scene you view,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcdecE ababXdcXce ababbcdecEcXecE X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,15,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 1111010111 1011010011 1001010101 1111110101 01010100100 10110110111 1111011101 1111110100 1101110111 0111110101 0101010101 1111110101 1111110011 0111111110 0101010111 0101000100 1111110110 0111011100 1101110111 11010110101 1101111101 1111111111 1111110111 1111011110 1111101100 1111011110 1011010111 1101010100 1101110111 1101011100 0111011100 1111011101 1101111100 1101110111 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 366
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- 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; you, and, that, at, to are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word all at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- central theme;
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