This is an analysis of Ballade Mystique by Clive Staples Lewis.
The big, red-house is bare and lone
The stony garden waste and sere…
Browse poems by Clive Staples Lewis
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbC aXabbcbC ababbcbc Xbcbc
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,5,
- Metre: 01110111 01010111 01010101 010100001 11010101 11001101 11111101 11111111 11110101 110010101 11010001 01010111 11011111 01010011 11110101 11111111 11110101 01010101 11010111 01010111 110101011 110100111 01010101 11111111 10 01110101 01010101 1001101 11111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
they
Anaphora
the, my
