This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of The Emeu that begins with:

Oh, say, have you seen at the Willows so green--
So charming and rurally true--... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXbX cbdXbX eXfgbX cgcbbX XbcbbX dgabXX fXcXXX ebaXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101111 11011001 01001001001 111001010 11 101001010 01101001101 101011011 101011101011 11011010 11 11111010 11001101011 10101010 10101101011 01010101 01 11111010 01101111001 001001101 11101011101 11001101 11 01101010 11110101011 101101001 11011101001 11001001 11 11111010 01101001001 11101101 1011001111001 01011101 100 11101010 11101111011 111011110 11011111001 11001110 10 101111100 111101111101 11011001 11101111101 101011010 11 001000110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, ', as are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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

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  • history of its creation;
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