This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad of the Fields that begins with:
THE devil's ruby eyes peer all night long,
A-hunting mice to spit upon his little prong....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc XX dd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101011111 010101010101 1111010001 1100010111011101 1101110101 1101010001011101 111101011111 0100010111010100 11010111 010101111001 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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