This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Of The Traffickers that begins with:
Up goes the price of our bread--
Up goes the cost of our caking! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabbcbC ababXcbC aXabbcXC 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: 1101011 11010110 1011001 10110010 11111010 1001001 11011010 1101001 1001001 10010010 1011101 100111010 10010110 1111111 10011010 1101001 1111011 11010110 1001011 11110110 11110010 1001001 10110110 1101001 10 11110111 1011001 10011010 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
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