This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of The Rose that begins with:
Booted and spurred he rode toward the west,
A rose, from the woman who loved him best,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab aaaX cXcb dddX cccb eeeX eXeb eeeX fffb eeeX gXgb dddb Xccb hhhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1011110101 0100101111 1100101001 101010010 1100111001 10011100 0010110101 100011010 1101011001 110100100 1100100111 101010010 111110101 110110111 111101111 0110011010 1111111001 1011110101 1011101111 101010110 000100101 100111001 010101111 111011010 1100110101 111100110 11110101 101010010 1110100101 110111101 1111100101 11111110 1100110111 110100101 110011101 001001010 010100111 110010111 110101101 1101110 11100101101 110011110 0001001101 101010010 010111101 1010100101 1100100111 001001010 1101100100 1100110011 11101100111 001001010 110011101 11111111 110111001 11011010
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; his, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, and are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Ballad Of The Rose;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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