This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan that begins with:
The morning sun touched lightly on
The eyes of Lucy Jordan ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAXabbXc XCDDEECD XXbfbbgf XCDDEECD aAccacdc XXgD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 0101010 00101011 0010101 11111010 10001010 1011010 1011101 10101 11011101 1100011 0011001 11101110 11111010 1010011101 0010101 0100101 1011101 11011101 100101 11101110 1101010 111010101 10101 10101 11011101 1100011 0011001 11101110 11111010 1010011101 0010101 01011101 0101010 1011111 11010111 111110001 11110001 1110100111 110101 10101 1111010 11101110 0011001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in, and, or are repeated.
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