This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad that begins with:
With A Serious Conclusion
Crowd about me, little children--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a abcb bded fXag hbXb bbhb cifi bbab chXh ibgX Xjhj ekkX fbcc hgbX abib beXe bhfh bili iibi aXXe iahX fhfh agig flfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100010 10111010 1110111 11101010 110101 11011101 010101 10101010 1110111 11101010 11101010 11101101 110101 1111110 110111 11110101 110101 1101111 111111 1101110 1110101 1111010 010111 1111110 1011101 1111011 111101 1111010 1010111 11110100 111101 1111110 110011 11010101 111101 11011101 110111 11101011 1011101 00111010 1110111 1111011 111111 01100111 111101 11111010 110101 1101010 110100 10111110 111101 111010101 111101 110101001 010101 1111010 1110101 111010011 110101 1111111 110101 10111011 1111101 10101010 1010101 1111011 1110101 100110011 010101 10101010 1011101 10101011 1110001 1101010 110010 11111010 0010101 101010010 1011101 0101010 1110110 11111100 1010111 11110110 0010101 11111101 110011 11011101 010101 1111110 1111101 1111110 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 94
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are 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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- summary of A Ballad;
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- idea of the verse;
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