This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of Minepit Shaw that begins with:
About the time that taverns shut
And men can buy no beer,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc dede fdfd dgdX hbhb eeeX hdhX hdhd cXcX cXcX cXcd dgdX aiai Xgcg jdjd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01011101 111111 111100101 011101 110101011 111111 1110010111 1010101 1110111101 1001001 111010101 1110101 11110101 111011 1110100110 111101 1011101111 111100 1111001001 11010010 1011001101 111101 10101101011 111111 11111111 111111 1010110101 1111110 101111101 1101011 11010111 1111110 11111101 1111001 1010101011 110111 101010011 1111110 101011101 01011100 101010111 1111110 101011101 0101110 1011111001 1101010 1010100101 110111 10010111 1111011 0110100101 1101010 1111100 110111 1010000111 101001001 1010111001 1101001 1111111111 1100111 1100110101 1010011 1101111111 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they, we, your, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, they are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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