This is an analysis of the poem The Queen's Marie that begins with:
Marie Hamilton's to the kirk gane,
Wi ribbons in her hair;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaBa XcBc XdBd Cbcb Cebe Xece befX XXXXgX bhbcfX begX bebX hbeb cbXb begX bbbb debX debe cece Xebe baGa bgGg DXCX DeCe ceXe bebX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011000011 110001 0111101100 110101 011000011 110101 0111101100 1110001 011000011 110101 0111101100 1011101 110001011 011101 11101011011 1010101 110001011 011101 1101101100 01100110 01000101 010101 01011011 1010100 111100010 110101 111111101 111111 1000101 1100011 11000101 100101 101100101 1010101110 10111101 110101 11110111 11011 101100111 11111101 11111101 111100 11010011 110101 111101100 111101 11110010001 0110101 11010111 110111 11011101 1100101 0111010 0101101 110011110 1101101 11010100 110111 1101110101 101100 110101100 111101 11110010001 110011 11111101 111111 11110010001 0110101 11110101 0110101 111111101 110101 111001001 111101 111100101 011001 10011110 011111 11011010110 10111011 11011111 1110101 111101101 0100011 1011111 110101 111101101 010101 11111100 1111001 11011011011 110101 11111100 110101 11011011011 011001 1011011011 111101 110100111 0110111 11001101 011101 01110100 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, word, and, no, up, slowly, she, hooly, ye, marie, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same words marie, she, when, 'i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words be, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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