This is an analysis of Ballade Of Worldly Wealth by Andrew Lang.
Money taketh town and wall,
Fort and ramp without a blow;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbcBD ababbcBDXababbcBD
- Stanza lengths: 8,17,
- Metre: 1010111 1110101 1010101 1011111 1010101 1001111 1011101 1111101 1010100 1111111 1010101 1010101 1010011 1010011 1011101 1111101 1010101 1010111 1110100 1010101 1010111 1010001 1011101 1111101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
money
