This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Of Truisms that begins with:
Gold or silver, every day,
Dies to gray.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaabbbabbX aabaabbb abbA aabaabbbabbA XXbbabbA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,4,12,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101001 101 11101001 100111001 101 0010101 11110111 111 1011101 1110111 101 1010111 1010111 111 10101011 1010101 101 1110111 1010111 101 1100101 11000111 101 0010111 1011101 101 1111101 1111111 111 10010001 1111101 001 1010111 1110101 111 0010111 10 1010001 101 1010111 1001001 101 0010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; though is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word though is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word may at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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