This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of The French Fleet. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth) that begins with:
A fleet with flags arrayed
Sailed from the port of Brest,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXXcdc bebefgfg hihiagaX ajajkhkh XagXadad lclXihihXlclcfgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 100101 10100101 010110 1010010 111111 01001011 110101 1010001 0010111 0010001 10101001 110101 1010001 110011 1010111 1111101 1001100 010101 010111 1100111 110001 110101 110101 010111 1111111 110111 0100101 01001010 1001011 110010010 1011100 010100 1000101 1111111 0010001 0100101 011101 1101111 100101 010101 1011001 1010101 1010010 110101 1010001 110011 110011 1010101 011001 101001101 1111001 110111 1101100 111101 0110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Ballad Of The French Fleet. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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