This is an analysis of the poem A Balade Of Complaint that begins with:
Compleyne ne koude, ne might myn herte never,
My peynes halve, ne what torment I have,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbXa cXXXXXX XXXXXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111111110 11011110111 11110110110 11010110111 11111101 0110111101 1010110110 1101111101 11110101111 1111110111 1110111101 1101111111 1101111100 1101011110 1001011101 100101011 1111110110 1100111010 11101010001 1110110101 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; ne, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, and are repeated.
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