This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad that begins with:
To that dear nymph, whose pow'rful name
Does every throbbing nerve inflame ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddC eeffccggC cchhbbbbC cciiaaeeC dXhhjjiijjC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 110010101 10111101 11010101 11110111 11110111 11011101 11010001 1111 01010101 01010011 01110101 10010101 11011101 00010101 110011010 010111010 1111 11010110 111100101 01011111 11011101 11111111 01000101 11010101 11011111 1111 10110111 11110101 10010101 11010111 11010101 11010101 11010111 11010111 1111 10111111 110101110 01110111 110101011 01011001 10110001 01010111 01010101 110100001 01110101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of A Ballad;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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