This is an analysis of the poem The Strange Story Of Korah, Dathan, And Abiram that begins with:
Old ballads sing of Chevy Chase,
Beneath whose rueful shade, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb adad Xbeb fgbX heie Xebe bccc dhih geje baca jcjc AXXf jgjg fccc jkAk Jlbl ajhj bgbg Jjjj khbh mbfb cebeXhmem
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 011101 110010111 1100101 11010111 1100101 10010100 010101 11010101 110101 11010001 110001 01011101 1111011 11011101 1101100 11110101 1101111 11111101 111101 1110111010 0100101 110110101 110101 01010101 00100010 01010101 0110010 11010111 110111 01011101 011101 11010101 110101 11111101 010111 11010111 110001 11010101 110101 10010101 010001 11010101 010001 11010101 1101100 01101111 0110110 11011101 010101 11010101 110101 11010111 111011 11110101 110101 01010101 010001 11010101 110101 100101101 111101 11011001 010011 01010101 110101 01001101 010101 11010111 111101 11010111 01101 100101101 111101 11010101 011001 01011101 110111 10010101 010101 11010101 110101 11110101 011001 01010101 010101 11010111 110101 11011111 1100101 11010100 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 92
- 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; and, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, her, the are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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