This is an analysis of the poem The Plaid Amang The Hether that begins with:
The wind blew hie owre muir and lea,
And dark and stormy grew the weather;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXCXXX dXdXCXXX XaXXCXXX dXdXCXXX XabXCXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111111 111101010 01111101 1110110010 111101 110100101 1110111 11100101 10011111 110111100 11011111 1110110010 111101 110100101 1110111 11100101 11111101 110111010 01111101 110110010 111101 110100101 1110111 11100101 01111101 1100111110 110111101 011110010 111101 110100101 1110111 11100101 11011111 1011110010 11111111 110110010 111101 110100101 11011111 01100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word pladdie at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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