This is an analysis of the poem The Wolfe New Ballad Of Jane Roney And Mary Brown that begins with:
An igstrawnary tail I vill tell you this veek—
I stood in the Court of A'Beckett the Beak,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabb cXbb XXbb dXbb eebb cXbb Xbbb febb febb ggbb aabX aabb dXbb hhXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110001111101 11001010001 11011001011 11101001001 01011101001 1110101001111 111111110111 11101011011 10101101101101 01001001011 11011011110 10101010101001 1101101011101 01110010101101 1101110101011 11110010110110 1101010101011 111101011101 110101011001 110101011011 1010110110111 0101011101101 11011101101001 101010101111010 010010111001 10101101011101 111101011111 10101110101001 11101010001011 101000101010101 1011101011011 10101101010101 1111010110101 11011010101 11010100010001 1101101010011 1101101011111 110101011111 101010010101111 1011001011011 111110101011 101111001101 1011011110101 111011010001 1010011100101 11111010001 1101001001 11001011011 101001011111 11011001011 10110001011 001001111011 111101011011 01011011111 1010110101111 01111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; i, and, no, to, roney, her, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word she at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase she connects the lines.
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