This is an analysis of the poem Balleta that begins with:
I AM young and fain to sing
In this happy tide of spring ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXXbbccdccbbddbXXeecceffccccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 00101001 011100101 11011111 01011111 11011101 11111101 01110011 11111001 11100101 111101011 10010011 11001101 11000101 11111111 11000101 01110101 010101001 100011110 10110101 01111011 11010001 110101010 11110011 11110111 11010111 11001101 11111101 11010111 01001011 1111101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1085
- Average number of words per stanza: 205
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, it, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, my are repeated.
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- summary of Balleta;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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