This is an analysis of the poem Rudiger - A Ballad that begins with:
Author Note: Divers Princes and Noblemen being assembled in a beautiful and fair
Palace, which was situate upon the river Rhine, they beheld a... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdcXedce afghg ibjb Fgkg lmJM fcnc CBgb jccc fcXc oaoe pfqf hake dpgp cckc bXXp dkek epgp rkpk ejgj gpgp pbcb rfkX jgkg Fkgk gkqk EgqX ckrX EkgX lmJM cgjg CBgb gcnc kqcq caga parX cddd rdqX jaca cafa gjgj gahX hXka gpbn kfif ffefXkgeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10110101100100100010011 1011101010101110011 1110101110100101 0111001010100010100 1011001001010011010 1101011101101011 11101010011100010 0110101001101101010 100111001100011 010100000110101111 11011001110101010 11110001011011011 11001101111010010110 01010001101110101111 101000001001010101010 0111 11010101 011101 1101001001 110101 110010101 010101 1100100101 010111 11110111 110111 11010111 010101 11000101 110101 01110100 110101 01011101 110101 11010101 010111 11000111 110101 11010111 110101 110010101 110100 01110101 010111 110011101 110101 110011101 110100 110011101 110101 110101001 110100 01010101 110101 11010001 010100 11010100 110101 11111111 111111 11001011 010101 10110111 010101 11110101 110110 1101010 111111 11010101 0100101 11000100 100101 11000100 010101 11010111 110111 11010101 010101 01010101 010101 10010100 010111 11010101 010101 110000111 010101 11101101 010101 110010101 110101 11010100 010101 101010101 1010111 100110001 101101000 11010011 010111 11000101 010011 110010101 010101 11010111 111001 11000101 010111 11110001 010111 101111100 110101 11010111 1101010 101111100 110111 100010101 10101110 101111100 1010111 11010101 101110100 11011111 011101 11010111 010101 01111001 111001 101100101 110111 01011101 110101 11010101 010111 011011101 110101 11010100 0110001 110101001 010111 101101001 100101 11110101 111101 11100101 1101001 01010101 1100101 101010101 10111000 101111100 1011101 101110101 1010100 101111101 1011101 11110101 101101100 11110111 111111 11010100 110101 01011100 111111 11010101 101111 11010101 110111 10011101 110101 110111001 010101 11000101 111011100 01100101 011011100 11010101 110101 11000111 010101 110011101 1100100 11010111 0100111 10010101 010101 1011100111 111111 10010100 010101 11111101 011111 11010100 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 47
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 193
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, in, same, his, turn are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, her, he, the 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.
The poet repeated the same word home at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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