This is an analysis of The Ballad Of The Rose by Madison Julius Cawein.
Booted and spurred he rode toward the west,
A rose, from the woman who loved him best,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaab aaaX cXcb dddX cccb eeeX eXeb eeeX fffb eeeX gXgb dddb Xccb hhhX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1011110101 0100101111 1100101001 101010010 1100111001 10011100 0010110101 100011010 1101011001 110100100 1100100111 101010010 111110101 110110111 111101111 0110011010 1111111001 1011110101 1011101111 101010110 000100101 100111001 010101111 111011010 1100110101 111100110 11110101 101010010 1110100101 110111101 1111100101 11111110 1100110111 110100101 110011101 001001010 010100111 110010111 110101101 1101110 11100101101 110011110 0001001101 101010010 010111101 1010100101 1100100111 001001010 1101100100 1100110011 11101100111 001001010 110011101 11111111 110111001 11011010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
his, and, of
Anaphora
where, and
