This is an analysis of The Ballade Of The Incompetent Ballade-Monger by James Kenneth Stephen.

I am not ambitious at all:
I am not a poet, I know…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcXC abXbbXbC ababbcbCXbcbC
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,13,
  • Metre: 11101011 11101011 111101011 01011001 11001011 11110011 11001010 111111001 111001001 11101001 11111010 11101001 0101001 11101011 11101001 111111001 01001111 11001001 11101001 11101101 11101011 01001001 01011011 111111001 11111001 1110101 11011011 111111001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

i, to

Anaphora

i, to