This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Des Pendus that begins with:
Where wide the forest bows are spread,
Where Flora wakes with sylph and fay,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbD ababbcbD ababbcbD XXbcbD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 11010111 11110011 11000101 01010101 11011111 11110101 001100101 11011101 01111111 01011101 110011101 010100001 110100111 111100101 001100101 1111110 01011101 11001101 11011101 01110101 001101011 01111111 001100101 10 11110001 01010101 01001111 001100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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