This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad of the Season that begins with:
THE sea is brown and green, and silver-flecked,
And roars as mountain-shadowed forests do....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbca cXcXbbdd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011111010 1111010101 0111000101 0101010111 01010100010 010100101010 1001110111 1101000101 1101010001 1100010101 1101110101 1101000101 1101011101 0011011101 1101010101 0101100101 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.
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- summary of A Ballad of the Season;
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- idea of the verse;
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