This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of Tanna that begins with:
She knelt by the dead, in her passionate grief,
Beneath a weird forest of Tanna;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbbX cXcXddXX eXeXbbXX fXfXggXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101001001 010110010 11011001011 110110100 01011101001 01010011001 11001011001 1010110100 10011010011 101011010100 101001011001 10100101100 11001001001 11001101001 11011111011 1011111100 10011010001 1010010010 111011101111 111111110 11111111001 111101101101 1110111011010 10101111100 100111001101 1010011010 110010111101 1010110100 111001001101 101101111001 10001011001 1011111100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The author used the same word 'wahina at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word deloya at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Ballad Of Tanna;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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