This is an analysis of the poem Ballad On Mr. Heron's Election—no. 4 that begins with:
WHA will buy my troggin, fine election ware,
Broken trade o' Broughton, a' in high repair?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cXB XXB ddB XXB ccB XaB eeB XXB ffB ffB ggB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010101 10111010101 10111010111 111011101 1010111101 11110101001 11101 10111000101 1010101110 11101 1011101001 1101010111 11101 10101010111 1001110101 11101 11101010101 10111011101 11101 11001010111 0101011010101 11101 10111010011 10101110101 11101 10101010101 1011010101 11101 10111011101 101110100101 11101 10101010101 10111010101 11101 111011000111 10101011101 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; buy is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word here's is repeated.
The author used the same word here's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word c at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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