This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of John Nicholson that begins with:
It fell in the year of Mutiny,
At darkest of the night, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cded fghX ibib egjg bbdb fdaX kjjj hdld icfc Xdid eibX Xjjj ieae fgag imkm keae jclX Xjfj bbjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010010100 110001 11001101 1010101 1111101 111111 1110010110 010101 101110101 111110 1111111010 1111010 10101101 010101 1100101100 110101 01001101 111111 01010101 110111 11010111 110111 1010011101 110101 1011110100 011111 111010100 1111010 11000101 010111 01010101 010101 1110110010 0101011 11011001 110101 11011100 010111 010100001 110101 10110101010 110111 1101001010 110111 1011010101 110111 11011111 01011000 01010101 110101 01010111 011111 11011100 111101 10110100110 111101 1011110100 111111 111101100 110111 101011100 100101 110101001 110101 101011100100 110101 1110110110 111101 101111101 100111 11011100 11111100 11011001 011101 11011101 110101 11011001 011101 0101100101 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; he, they, we, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he, we are repeated.
The author used the same words you, were, when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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