This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Of Dead Actors that begins with:
Where are the passions they essayed,
And where the tears they made to flow?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaacXCbabaacaCbabaacaC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101100 11011101 10110101 11010111 10011101 11011101 11001101 00011111 110100111 01010111 01010101 010100011 01010101 01011100 01010101 00011111 01010101 01010101 01111101 01010001 110100111 01010101 01010111 00011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 874
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; where, they, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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