This is an analysis of the poem Ballad (2) that begins with:
A sultry garden stood the night.
We kept silent ourselves about what grips us horribly....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X X b a b b X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11100101111100 001101 10110010010 1110011 1111111 10010110010 0110110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 38
- Average number of words per stanza: 7
- Amount of lines: 8
- 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.
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- summary of Ballad (2);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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