This is an analysis of the poem The Five Carlins: An Election Ballad that begins with:
THERE was five Carlins in the South,
They fell upon a scheme,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abCX XdXd XXXX efef Xcfc CgfG fGhX iXCf Xgig XjCh jfif hehX Xfaf XcaX eXic dciX ebXb XciX XXiX XicX Xkgk gbcX fecX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001 110101 01010101 010101 11010101 111101 11011101 101101 111010111 011110 110010101 010111 11010101 111101 11011101 010111 111111011 110111 11010011 01101 01010101 110101 1100111001 010111 1100111001 010111 11111101 110111 01110101 1001011 11110101 111101 11111101 110111 11010101 110111 011001011 111101 11110101 011101 11110101 110101 11111101 111001 11011101 111101 11110001 111110 11111111 111111 11110101 110101 10110011011 110101 11110101 0101011 11111101 10101110 11110101 111101 101111101 111111 11110101 11111100 1111101 010111 1110011100 111111 11011111 111001 101011101 1111010 11011101 111101 011001101 010101 1010011101 010101 101011101 1101010 111100101 110101 01011101 011111 1001111111 111110 11010101 11111100 11010111 110111 11011101 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 114
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, ane, wad, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, her 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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