This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of The Heather that begins with:
We spent a day together,
One day of all our lives,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXab cdcdcd efXfef ghghgh acacac XcXcXc gigigi egegeg Xfgfgf dfdfdfXababab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 110111 0101010 1101100 1100110 010111 0111011 011111 0100111 110101 1101111 010111 0100010 111101 0101010 010001 0101010 011111 1101110 011101 1101010 111111 0101110 111110 1111010 011101 1111110 111101 11101010 1101101 1111110 110111 1101110 110011 1101100 011101 1110110 010011 0100110 111101 0110010 011011 0101010 110001 1101010 010101 1111110 111101 1100010 011101 1111010 111001 1111010 111011 1101010 110101 1101110 010101 11001110 110001 0111010 110111 1101010 110111 1100110 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, we, what, they are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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