This is an analysis of the poem Ballade that begins with:

Bodies of comrade soldiers gleaming white
Within the mill-pool where you float and dive ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab abb cb C d ad da ac aaC ef ef fc fC X g cgXC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,2,1,1,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,1,1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001110101 0101111111 1101111101 1001010101 1101100101 1111010101 1101011111 0101110101 1111010101 1010000111 0111110111 1100011011 1 1011110101 0101010101 111101011 1 0101110101 1011111101 0101110011 1111001111 1011011111 1111010111 1101110111 0101010001 0101110101 10 1101010101 1011010101 1111111100 0101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
  • Average number of words per stanza: 13
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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; of is repeated.

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  • summary of Ballade;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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