This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of Downal Baun that begins with:
The moon-cradle's rocking and rocking,
Where a cloud and a cloud goes by:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAB cded bfgbg dchX bfgf iefe cjgj khlhmh Xfdbd nege hhhh ghlX fdcd efhf ehkX Xhih Xnennn Xogo phpX hjnj Xknfn XeXe Xefe gejXfXqX hggX jXeX Fpqp FkeX bbeb XrXr XXdnkn cbmq feXeABAB gcgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,4,4,4,6,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,5,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010110 10110111 10010110 01101001 010011010 01101101 111011011 0111101 1 1110101 1011111 110110101 11101101 0010101 11101110 11011001001 1110001001 11101111 101101001 1110101101 10100101 10110101 01111001 10111111001 011111 111110010 110101 0100111101 1110101 11110111 1111111 01101001101 011101 1101001011 11100101 1 1100101 10100111 1111111111 1110101 111001001 11101101 101100101 01101 1110011010 01111101 111011110 010101 011001010 1101001 101001101101 01010111 111101 111111 10111010 1010101 111101 010101 1111111001 10110101 1011111 11111011 10111001101 101011010 110101100 011111 010101111 011111 101011100 01010001 11011010 110101 1101100101 10101101 11010010 11011011 1110110010 001101 11101011 1110001 01001111 11101010 1110101 111101 110111101 1100101 1 11011011 01110111 1101010 1101101 101011100 1111011 11101010 110101 111010110 01001011 111101110 1101101 111110111 0101111 01001110 10101110 111110 110111 1101110 111111 11101011 0111101 11010100 010101 11111010 101101 1111010011 110110 11111010 1110111 0100010 101101 11111010 1110101 111110111 110101 111010011 11011101 1101010 1101001 1101001 11001001 111110110 11111101 111110100 111101010 1110010011 101101001 111011111 1011111 01101010 11101011 1011010011 10101100 11110101 11101111 1100110 1100101 011010110 10110111 10010110 01101001 010110010 11001110 1111010 01001101
- Amount of stanzas: 34
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 153
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; rocking, and, he, of, by, ', as, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, he, and are repeated.
The author used the same words the, and, 'o 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 ' is repeated).
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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