This is an analysis of the poem A Woeful New Ballad Of The Protestant Conspiracy To Take The Pope’s Life that begins with:
Come all ye Christian people, unto my tale give ear,
'Tis about a base consperracy, as quickly shall appear;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb bddXbX XefXbX eXXbX eebb ffbg ddbX ccbg XXXbg ffbX XebX XXbg hhbg XebX ffbX iigX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,6,5,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010101111 101011000110101 111101011110111 10011000110111 01001000110001 110001100100011 0110101001010111 1110101111010011 11111010011010001 10 011101011100110 111110111111010 1 1101011110100 111010100101010 1 101001100110100 110110111101000 1 1011111011001010 11111010001111 10 110101001110100 10010100111111 1101001011010100 100101011110111 101010100110101 1101010101011 1111110110000111 110111011010001 011101011010101 110010100110101 1101010011110 110101000101110 010101000111010 11011000110011 101000100010110 01000100111011 010001011001001 11110011010101 0111010010110 0100010011101110 11110100101001 11 100111100100101 101100101010010 11010101010101 11110100101001 1101010010111 111111001001 01010100101100 11010101101001 111110100010101 0010001011010100 1010101110010 111011100110010 110011111001 11010100110110 11000110010101 0100110010001 1111011010101 11011000010110 1110001001011 1101110011011 0111010010001 01110101010100 11000110010101 1011100011101 1101100011101 111000100001010 1000101110011 110001001101111 11110100111110 101100100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and, to, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, there are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines no is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words pio, nono at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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