This is an analysis of the poem Ballad Of The Armada that begins with:

King Philip had vaunted his claims;
He had sworn for a year he would sack us;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc ababXcbcXababbcbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11011001 1111011111 011001001 1110010111 1010011111 11011101 111110011 111010001 010001001 0010101111 001101011 1111111011 110110010 11001001 110110010 111010001 101001011 011110011 11111101 1111110111 0010011111 01101011 011010111 111010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; he, his, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word spain at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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