This is an analysis of the poem The Relief Of Wet Willows that begins with:
Now this is the ballad of seven men
Who rode to Wet Willows and back again.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa aa b b cc bX dd cc e e aa ee cc ff f f aa gg aa cc d d cc ff hh ii f X bb aa ii ee b b dd cc Xaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,1,1,2,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1000100101 1101111101 01101100101 11101001011 111011011 1011001111 10101001101 0011101111 11011101 10100110100 1010110111 011101101 11111111101 1110111101 101001001011 101111111001 10101001001 110110101 1100100101 01111111001 111110101 111101111 10100100111 101111001001 11110100111 1111010110111 110111101 1111111101 1001001001 1011010101 111110101 1110101101 011010111 1110111101 11101001011 1111100111 001111101111 11111101001 10101001101 101111101111 101111011111 11101011011 01111001101 1100010100 001011101 0101101111 010110111 1010101111 111111011 10110101101 1100100101 01011111 10111111 011110111 11111111111 111101001101 001101101111 01111101011 1111101111 011101101 01001111101 11111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 39
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; they, who, and, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, nor are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Relief Of Wet Willows;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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