This is an analysis of The Ballade Of The Mistletoe Bough by Ellis Parker Butler.
I am standing under the mistletoe,
And I smile, but no answering smile replies…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabaacaC babXacaC babaacaC XXacac
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,6,
- Metre: 1110100101 11111100101 1010111101 111100111 010010101 010011110001 110111101 1111111101 111101111 1110100101 111111111 1111010100 111011101 1111111101 1010110101 1111111101 1111111111 0101010101 1111111101 010010101 1110101101 001110111 1111100101 1111111101 10 1100101101 1101110101 10100111101 1111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, as
Anaphora
and
