This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Of The Hardy Annual that begins with:
Many a jest that refuses to die
Bobs up again as the seasons appear; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcXC aXabbcbC aXabbXbC XXbcbC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101001 1101101001 1001101001 10011101001 1011011011 101010101 1011011011 1001101001 1101101001 11010010010 10011011011 1101001101 1001011001 1111011001 11010110001 1001101001 1011101101 1101001110 1001101001 1001111111 1101001001 1011001010 1001101001 1001101001 10 1001001001 1001111001 1001001101 1001101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, at are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word joke at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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