This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Of Youth And Age that begins with:

Spring at her height on a morn at prime,
Sails that laugh from a flying squall,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaBbcbC abaBbcbC abaBbcbC XXbBcC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110110111 11100101 101001001 100100111 10111111 110100101 010110101 110100101 11100101 11100101 0111101011 100100111 10100101 011100101 010010100 110100101 101110101 111001001 110101101 100100111 011100101 010100101 010010100 110100101 10 101111011 100100111 0100110101 110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, that, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word age at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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