This is an analysis of the poem The Spectre Pig that begins with:
A BALLAD
IT was the stalwart butcher man,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdc eafa bghg igig bbjb kdad bbXb blfl daXa dmlX bdad ejaX bnmn behX hcic laaa kiki llhl aljl aada hXka Xnan naaa bjnX jaaa Xobo nana kigiXibnb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010 01010101 110101 11010111 110001 11010101 110101 11010101 010111 11111101 111101 11010101 110101 11111101 010111 11010100 110011 11111101 111111 11110101 110101 10011111 010011 111100001 110001 01010101 110101 11010101 101101 01010101 011101 10010100 110101 11110011 110011 10010100 110101 11010101 010101 11111101 111001 01010101 111111 101101001 111101 11010101 111111 11110101 111101 01010101 110111 11100111 110101 11110101 110111 11010101 010101 10010101 110001 110100101 0111001 11111101 011111 11010101 110101 01110101 010101 11010101 010101 11110101 010001 11110101 111101 01110111 110101 11001101 010101 11000101 110111 01011101 011101 11010101 0101110 110111001 1111010 11011101 110101 11010101 110101 11010101 110101 11110111 010101 11111101 111111 11111111 010101 100100101 0100111 11110001 1100111 11011101 110101 11010101 110101 11010101 110101 010010101 010101 11010001 111111 11111111 101101 11011101 010111 01011101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 117
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and, it, they, her, pig, ye, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, they, ye, one, the, a are repeated.
The author used the same word it 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 floor is repeated).
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