This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of Ahmed Shah that begins with:
This is the ballad of Ahmed Shah
Dealer in tats in the Sudder Bazar,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX ccddeefXggXhii aXddjXffeXddcchdffeX kkiilleeaXdXXXXhfXmmhhggXXjjddnnXb hhiiXn lleech eeXaeecii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,14,20,34,6,6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 000100101 1001001001 1011100110 1111101010 10110101 011100101 011110111 11100100111 10100101 0111110101 10100101 1111001010 10011101 10101111 101001011 11101101 1101001011 11011001011 10101101101 1010100110 1011101101 1011101101 1011100101 10100101101 11100101101 110100100 10111111 001001001011 010101101 10011101101 1010101111 1011001001 110011 01001 11000110101 0101101011 101010111 110111111 1011110111 1011101101 11101001001 11101101001 0100101101 011101101 11111110001 111011111 11100100101 011010110 0100100101 1111000110 110100101 1010100100 10110100111 1110011001 1010100101 010010101 11011011010 10111001110 10101101001 10111010101 0100111101 1101100111 10111001011 1110101101 101110110111 01010100111 1011110111 10101010111 1010111111 1011100111 10011001110 1110101101 1011100101 1110111101 1011100101 110001001001 011111111 1010010101 0111011101 11001011001 0110110111 111101101 1100101101 01001001001 110101101 0100101001 011001101010 1111100101 100111101 101111001 11001101011 010101000010 11011111110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 565
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 93
- 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, his, some, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, some, and, the are repeated.
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