This is an analysis of the poem Elspeth's Ballad that begins with:
The herring loves the merry moon-light,
The mackerel loves the wind,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bXbX XXcX deae bfcf agag acaX cXcf XbfX afaf dfXf afXX fXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101011 0100101 101010101 11100101 111111110 110111 110101001 1110110 0101110 110111 1101101100 1011010 110010111 11100101 00100111101 10010101 110100101 011101 110110101 110101 11010101 1100101 01011101 110101 01100101 110101 11011110 11010 11111111 110111 01100101 110101 11010111 0101010 11111101 011001 11100101 110101 011001101 10100101 11110101 111111 11111101 111111 11111111 110111 111010101 1111010 11111101 1111110 111111001 1101100
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 52
- 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; loves, and, mile are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, they, their 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.
The poet repeated the same word harlaw at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Elspeth's Ballad;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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