This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of East And West that begins with:
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABCB ddeefXXgXgeXhhhXeXeaaeXiidXjjkkhhhheekkeejjeXaaeelhhlliXaabXhXaahXdeXXXaaffddhhXX aaddhhgghfXXXAABCB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,81,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110111011100111 11111100111101 11010111101111 11111101 111001001 10010101010101 111100101100101 111001001010101101 1101001011100101 111101011101001 1011001011111110100 111110010100100 101101001011110101 11110010011100010 11111110001101 1011001101110111 10100111111111001010 1010101010110111 10110101101010101 10100111001111101 1111011111001010 0101110011011111 00100110101 10100101 010100111111101 11101001011111101 111010110111111 1110100101001001010 11101001010100101 1111101001110101 11101111011010111 1110100101101011100 0111001010111001 01111010110110101 01110101110101 10111001110101001 11100111001111101 111101111100111 11100111001111101 01111010110110111 0111101010010111 110110111110101 1110101001111101 1010110010011111101 1110111011110101 11001011100101101 01111101111101 0101011110101001 011111111111101 011100111010111110 101001011000111 1111101010111001 0111001010101101 1001001010110111 1011110101 1110101 010010011101101011 101100101110101 010100101111101 101100101011111 1111010111111110 101111011110101 10110010111011111 11110111010111 1101011101101010 10100101101101011 110111101111110010 0111001011100101 1011101101101100101 111100101110101 11001011011101010 01010101110101 111001001011 1011010010 10110101101101101001 1101101011111010 0111001011100101 110110100111110101 1010110010110101001 11111011111101 11111101111111 11001100011011 11110111110111 11110110110100101 111101011111010 1010110100111101000 1111100101111111 111001001001110111 1110010010011101111 101101001011010101 01011101110101 111110110111111 111100101110111 111011100100100101 101110010101 10101111 1111110101 0110100100 110111011100111 11111100111101 11010111101111 11111101 111001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1720
- Average number of words per stanza: 336
- Amount of lines: 103
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, west, east, nor, of, he, ye, to, thy, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words till, the, and, they are repeated.
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