This is an analysis of the poem A Ballade Of Suicide that begins with:
The gallows in my garden, people say,
Is new and neat and adequately tall;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbXbA ababaXA ababbabA X XabA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,8,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100110101 0111110001 1101100101 1111011101 1111010101 110011011000 0101111101 1110111101 0100011111 1101010001 1101011111 01010100111101110101 1101010101 1101010100 1110111101 0101010101 0100010101 111111101 1011010111 1000110100 1111110101 1101010111 1110111101 10 11110100100 01010101001 1001110111 1110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines day is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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