This is an analysis of Ballad Of The Gibbet by François Villon.
Brothers and men that shall after us be,
Let not your hearts be hard to us:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcXbddbab eaecaXbbab efXXffggbfB XacbcB
- Stanza lengths: 10,10,11,6,
- Metre: 1011111010 11110101 110001100 11110110 111111101 1101111110 1001001110 1101111101 111111100 1111011001 1011111101 1100111101 11111101 11010100 01110011 01011010 101011101 1011001001 111111101 011101001 0110101111 01111111 1011110111 11011011 11 11111111 011110110 1001011001 111100111 111111111 111011001 10 110100101 11111100 111101011 11111100 111011001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 37
Repeated words/phrases
and, us
Anaphora
the, and
