This is an analysis of the poem Ballad that begins with:
A WONDERFUL age
Is now on the stage:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ccbbbb ddeffe ffbggb hhfiif aacjjc iikbbk llfllf XXXiib fffddf lllmml lXbnnb bblool
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001 01101 11101011 1101 11011 11111011 01001 001011 1010110010 01011 010111 101011010 01101 01111 01101011 111011 101101 10101001 11111 01001 1011000010 01111 011111 0010011010 010110 110010 111110000 101011 110001 1010110101 100011 101011 110110110 11111 11101 011110010 01011 101101 0011010010 11111 011001 110110010 010110 110110 111010110 111110 011010 110110010 01001 11011 111010100 1100100 011010 11011101 11001 111101 110110010 11011 111111 111010110 1111110 010110 111010110 101001 111111 111010010 11111 11000 110110010 11011 101001 1110010010 111011 11101 101011010 111011 11101 111010010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; as, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines own is repeated).
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- summary of Ballad;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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