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…
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
