This is an analysis of the poem Ballad, On A Late Occurrence that begins with:
Ungodly papers ev'ry week
Poor simple souls persuade ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXbdbXbebXfdffebebfffegdgfbhXghdhibhbbdbdXbXbiedeaXfcgdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 110101 110001101 111101 11111101 011111 11011101 110111 10011001 1100010 10111111 010101 010100111 110101 11010101 001101 01011101 111101 11010111 010001 10110101 100001 11010101 1010101 101010101 101101 01110111 111111 100111101 010001 11110101 0001110 00011101 010101 110011101 110111 11111101 111011 11110111 010111 10010101 110011 010101010 011101 11101000 001101 11010111 110101 11010101 111101 11010101 110011 11011101 111110 11111111 110101 10010101 100101 11011101 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1916
- Average number of words per stanza: 338
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; who, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, and, but are repeated.
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