This is an analysis of A Ballade Of An Anti-Puritan by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
They spoke of Progress spiring round,
Of light and Mrs Humphrey Ward-…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbaX aaaaabXB aaaaabaB XabaB
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,5,
- Metre: 11011101 01110101 00110111 11010111 111101110 11010001 11110101 01111001 01110001 11011001 10111101 11010101 01011101 01111101 110111010 01111001 11111101 10110001 11010001 11010111 11100101 11100101 11010111 01111001 10 11011101 01010111 01010011 01111001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, that
Anaphora
i, and
