This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of The Lakes that begins with:
My love she went a-sailing
Ere yet the day was done,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb abdb Xaea abfX fghX fiei jfkf alcl aele fgdg ffef X Xmfm fkfk Xkek jnen Xhlh XfXf Xdad odad oblb X ofkf JXkh Jndn jefe oidiXahfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 110111 1011110111 1100101 11101010 1100111 101011111 1010110 1110010 1110111 1011110101 10100111 1111010 1010101 11010101 1100101 11110010 00100101 111110111 111111 111010010 0010101 110110101 0100111 10111010 0010111 010100111 1010101 1101110 1100101 10101101001 110011 111111010 110101 011100101 0010101 1001110 00100111 1011011101 00100101 11010010 111101 01111111 10101101 11 11001010 1010111 010100101 0011101 1101110 010101 1010111111 100101 0111110 00110101 111110101 10110101 11101110 1011101 1011111011 1111101 1111111 11100101 111011111 1110101 1111110 1111101 0101111011 1011011 01010010 1100101 11111111 0011111 110010010 0100101 1101101011 10001001 11011110 1010101 101111101 1010111 11 01101010 0110111 11111111 1101011 111010010 11101010 10111111 1111101 111010010 010101 11110101 111101 11111010 1011111 1100110101 1011101 11111010 1010101 11111101 1011001 10111010 11111111 1011110111 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 106
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The author used the same words do, then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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