This is an analysis of the poem A Ballade Of An Anti-Puritan that begins with:
They spoke of Progress spiring round,
Of light and Mrs Humphrey Ward-... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbaX aaaaabXB aaaaabaB XabaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 01110101 00110111 11010111 111101110 11010001 11110101 01111001 01110001 11011001 10111101 11010101 01011101 01111101 110111010 01111001 11111101 10110001 11010001 11010111 11100101 11100101 11010111 01111001 10 11011101 01010111 01010011 01111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; i, and, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word pub at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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