This is an analysis of The Ballad Of Saint Vitus by Lord Alfred Douglas.
Vitus came tripping over the grass
When all the leaves in the trees were green,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd edXd efef ghgh aieX edeX aeae egeg agag bebe aeaX gdgd gbgX jcjc cacX kckc bdbd lblX cicX dmdm cbcb ngXg cccc dddX cece dada nlnX dodp bXbaXdodpb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,10,
- Metre: 101101001 110100101 10111101 101111101 0111011001 11111111 101010111 101000101 0111110110 110111110 1010111100 1010101110 01111101 101110101 11010111 101010101 11110111101 01001111101 11111101 101111101001 1100100101 1010111011 10100011001 1011100100 101110111 11011101 10110111 01111100 10110101 111011101 11100101 1011101001 1111111001 001001001001 111010100 111011101 101011111 110111101 10100101 1110100101 11101111101 101010001 1111110001 11110001 10110101 111011101 111100101 111101001 11011101 011110101 111010111 10010101 11010101 1011111111 11011111 11110110 1010011111 1110111001 110100101 10111101 101110111 11111101001 1111010101 1110000100 101110111 1101101111 10100111101 10110110111 111110101 1110101011 110010101 11110101 11100110101 10111111 1010100101 111110101 1101101001 11010111 11111110101 111111110 11111111 111101110 100100101 1101001110 101101111 10110111 1011110111 01010101 11011101 0010100101 1100111111 001011110 11011101 01011101 10111101111 101011101 1011100111 01001101 11010101 01111100 11110011 011110101 101110111 10010011 10010111 01110100 11000111 1000101 11101101 10111101 101110101 1100110 11011101 1010110110 10011101 11010100 110101010 010101011 10111010 11100101 01011101 01010111 01110101 11111100 01
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 31
- Lines: 125
Repeated words/phrases
and, as, his, brown, he, of, ', in
Anaphora
and
