This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of Fair Ladies In Revolt that begins with:
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See the sweet women, friend, that lean beneath... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbdcd X efeaXA X bcbdXd X gcgacA a cgcdgd a eheahA X icidcd X XcXaca X jkjdkd e lilXia a ekedkd X ldlada X kikdid X eheaha X bcbdcd X cccaca X cXcdgd X kmknma X ojodjd X flfXla X kbkdbd X jpjnpa X kokdod X eeeaXA X kmkdmd X edeada X ifidfd X iXinXa X k
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1011011101 0101010011 1011011101 011101011001 0101000101 01110111 1 1111110111 1111011110 0101011001 0001011101 0111101110 11111111 1 1101011111 0101111101 1101111101 0011000111 0111010100 11011101 1 1111010101 0101011101 1111110101 1111111101 1111010101 11111111 1 1011000101 0100011101 1101010011 1101110101 0111111011 11001101 1 1110111101 1111100101 0011010111 111110011 0101010101 11111111 1 1101010101 10001101111 1001010101 10001110101 1101111101 10111011 1 0100010101 1101110101 11011011100 1101011101 1100110111 01011111 1 1111010011 1110110101 1101110101 1111110111 0101010101 11111011 1 0101000101 1101010111 1111110101 01100111000 1101011101 11110111 1 1101010111 01001111111 1101100101 11111100111 10110110111 11110111 1 1111010111 0101111111 1001010101 1101010101 1101010011 11011111 1 1101011011 01010011011 1011001111 11010110111 0110001111 110111101 1 11010010100 11001111111 0101010101 11010111001 1101010101 11110101 1 1110110111 1101010101 1011000101 1111000101 11011100001 11100111 1 1101011001 1001100101 1101010101 1110001111 01001111110 11000111 1 1010010101 11011101110 11110010111 1001010101 0100110011 11011101 1 1101010101 1111110111 10011010111 101100001000 1111001111 01011111 1 11000100001 1001011001 0101010001 1011010111 0111011001 10010101 1 1111011101 1111010101 1111110101 11010101000 1001011101 11000101 1 1101010111 1100110011 0111110101 0110110111 1100010101 11010101 1 1111111101 1110010101 1101000111 11111101000 1111100011 10110101 1 1101010111 1011010101 1101111111 00110100111 10110010101 111111111 1 1101011101 0101010101 1111010101 1111110111 01111111000 11111111 1 1100110101 1101010001 0100010101 0111100101 1101110101 10011111 1 1111010101 1101011111 10011111101 0111010101 0111100101 01011111 1 1111010011 0101001101 0101011101 1001111111 1111011101 11001111 1 1111111101 1101111111 1001001111 1111010100 0111110111 110100011 1 0101010001 1111110001 010001100111 01001011101 10111111111 110010011 1 0111110111 1101010101 1011101101 1001110000 0101011111 11110111 1 10010001010 1101101010 11010111110 1111110001 1101010101 11011111 1 1111011101 11110101001 1101011101 1011110001 0101111111 11010101 1 01110100101 1101010111 0101000111 1001010111 1011010101 01010101 1 0100110011 1101110111 1101101111 111110010011 11101010111 10110111 1 1111110101 111101010001 0101111111 1111010101 1111011101 11000101 1 11101101111 010010111 1110010011 1111001100 1100111111 10010111 1 1111010011 0111010101 1101110111 01101010101 11110100011 11110101 1 0101111111 0101010111 0101011101 11110000100 1100111001 01011011 1 1101110101 01111011111 0100110001 1101100101 1001010111 010100101 1 11111111100 0101010111 1011111111 1011000100 1011110101 01010111 1 11111010111 1111111101 01000010001 110110111001 11111100101 11110101 1 111010010101 1011010001 1101110101 0101111101 1111010101 11011111 1 1111011001 1110011100 1100010001 1111111101 1111010101 11000101 1 1101111111 1101010101 0101111001 1111110101 1101010001 110011011 1 1101110001 1111000101 1111010101 10011111101 1111010111 01110111 1 1101111101 1001010101 1101111101 1101001101 10010010101 01011111 1 1111010101 0101010011 1100110001 1101011111 1101010111 11011111 1 1000010101 0101101111 0001010101 11110100011 1101011101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 96
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 336
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; you, of, they, in, truth, and, we, your, for, to, mind, err, if are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, the, we, to are repeated.
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