This is an analysis of the poem The Sonnet-Ballad that begins with:
Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?
They took my lover's tallness off to war,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbabbcbcdedeXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010100 1111010101 1101011101 1111110111 1101011101 1101011111 1111010111 1111110001 1100011101 1001110011 0101110001 1101110111 110001010100 1101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 588
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; and is repeated.
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