This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of The Murdered Merchant that begins with:
All stark and cold the merchant lay,
All cold and stark lay he. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba Bcbc bdad BeXe fgXX Xfbf beee Xhhh bgXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 111111 11110110 110101 11110110 0100111 11110110 011001 111110110 111101 11110101 011111 11110110 111111 1111101101 11100101 010111111 0010011 1000111101 100110100 11010111 110111 11110110 110101 110111001 0101111 0100100101 1100111 110010100 1110101 11110110 110101 1111111 111101 11111111 111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, the, hello, and are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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