This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Sent To King Richard that begins with:
Sometime this world was so steadfast and stable,
That man's word was held obligation;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbbXC ababbXC abXbbcC X XbXbXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,1,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111110 111111010 1100111100 111110010 010111111 0101111100 1101110110 11010011000 111110010 11010101010 101111010 101011010 1100110100 1101110110 10111001010 101111010 101111010 110001010 01111010 0101010100 1101110110 10 1101000100 101111010 1010110100 010110110 110101000 1111110100 1111010110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 29
- 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 is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word steadfastness at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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