This is an analysis of the poem Sweet William's Farewell To Black-Ey'D Susan: A Ballad that begins with:
1 All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd,
2 The streamers waving in the wind,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb ababcc dedeee dfdfgg gagabb hehebb cfcfgXXaaaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110010111 101010001 111110101 111111111 111110010111 10111010101 110110101 110010011 111011111 111110101 10111010101 11111010111 110111101 111010001 1010101111 111110001 10101000101 11101011101 111010101 111110101 111111101 111010101 11111111110 10101011101 110110101 111011101 111110101 101010101 11101011111 111101100011 1101100111 111110101 111010101 111010011 11101010111 11011110101 111011011 111110101 111011101 110100101 11101011111 111011101010 101010101 101110101 111011101 111111101 10101010101 11011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, she are repeated.
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