This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad That We Do Not Perish that begins with:
Those who sailed at dawn
but will never return...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaX ba cXd e Xdf cfXXeccbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,3,1,3,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111 101001 111101 0110010001 10011101 11110101 111101010 11010101 1111000101 11110110 0111011 11010110 011110101 110101100110 1101110010 11011101 01011111001 0101010001 100 1010011001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; their, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word their is repeated.
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