This is an analysis of the poem A Border Ballad that begins with:
OH, I haven't got long to live, for we all
Die soon, e'en those who live longest;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdAXaXXXXdaXabcbcXacA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101111 111011110 101011011011 010010110 1010101101 101110010 10110110101 1010010110 101011111100 1110011110 101101011101 1010111010 101010111 10111110 1010110101 001110010 111011101011 111011010 01101101011 111010110 101010111 110011010 11111111111 101110010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 972
- Average number of words per stanza: 198
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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