This is an analysis of A Ballad Of François Villon, Prince Of All Ballad-Makers by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Bird of the bitter bright grey golden morn
Scarce risen upon the dusk of dolorous years,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbcdedE ababbccecE ababbcceXE XcceddE
- Stanza lengths: 10,10,10,7,
- Metre: 1001011101 110010101000 1011110101 1111010111 10110011111 111111011010 1101101101 1111010011 1111000101 1011111101 0101010101 1111011111 11111111011 11111111001 1111110101 11111101010 11011101010 1111110111 110111011110 1011111101 1101111111 1111110111 1011111101 1101011111 1111011011 11011101010 111100111010 1111110101 1111110010 1011111101 10111101110 01011101110 11111110011 10111111010 1111110111 1011111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 39
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, for, thy
Anaphora
and, till, poor
