This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of Whitechapel that begins with:
God's mercy shines ;
And our full hearts must make record of this,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbaB cbcb adad cece fgfX cfcf cchc adda heXX gigi jiji cdcd bkbk fafa jiXj lblb fifiXAbaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101 1111110100 1111010111 001111 1111 0101010101 01010111011 110101 1101 011111101 1111011101 111101 0101 0101010001 0101110111 1100101 1111 1101111100 1101011101 110101 1111 1001000100 1011011101 010101 1111 1101110011 111111110 1100101 01001 10111101000 110100100010 111101 1100 0111110101 0100010111 010101 1111 0110111101 1101010101 1100001 1101 0101000111 1110110101 110111 1111 1111110111 0111010111 101101 1111 0011010111 1111010011 1001001 0101 11110001110 1001010101 1101010 1111 1111100101 1111000111 111101 1100 0111010111 1111010100 111101 1100 1011010111 1101011100 1111001 1101 1111110100 0111010111 001111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my, lord, to, love are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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