This is an analysis of the poem May Janet that begins with:
“STAND UP, stand up, thou May Janet,
And go to the wars with me.”... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb adcd dede dbXb ceXe cbab feXe fbeb fdXdXfded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111110 1100101 110111 0010101 11111101 111111 01111110 100101 111100101 11001110 111100101 111100 111101111 1111011 111101110 111101 01010111 110100 11011010 100110 01010111 100111 11111110 1100101 011110 1101110 110101 1100010 0101110 010010101 1101010 010101 011110 01111101 1101010 011001 011110 110111 001110100 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; grow, in, have, her, by, i, s, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, or, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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