This is an analysis of the poem Clerk Saunders that begins with:
Clerk Saunders and may Margaret
Walked ower yon garden green;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dXae fAgX dbXb dXXX gdFd FAgX hXhX hXhX hXhX hedX deaX dXeX dbXX ieeX febX beje fXBX abgX adXk AeBX abbX eeXe AekX dbjb XXlX bhah fafX XamX mabX laca XXbXXleie
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100 1101101 11110101 111101 11011101 111111 111111100 1101100 1011110110 110101 11111110 1011101 11011110 110101 11111111 11011100 11010011 111111010 11111111 11111110 010101110 110101 101101010 110101 101101010 110101 11111110 101010001 11110110 11011111 111101010 11011111 11110110 11111101 11110110 1100101001 11110110 10111101 11110110 101010101 111101010 1100111 11110111 1111011 110110110011 000110111 11110101 111011 11111101 01010101 11001101 101111010 11111101 010010101 11100101 11110010 10110101 1111100 110011001 11111101 1011101 110001100 11110111 100101111 01011101 010011001 111011110010 111100101 111010011 1111010 11111101 11111101 111111101 11111101 011101110 111111 110011100 01011001 10111101 11010101 1111001011 110111101 11111101 11111111 11111111 11111101 011111010 111101100 111100101 110101011 110111000 111100101 1111001011 110111101 010100101 111100110 111100101 111100101 111001110110 1100111101 1111011110 1111110 110011101 01101111 010111101 11011101 011100110 11110111 1110111110 01101111 0110111110 111111 101111110 111111 11001101 10010111 11011001 111101 01011101 1110101 11011101 110111 11010111 111111 11101110 110110 11110101 1111101 11110111 111101 01010001 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 33
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 132
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, bed, ', your, me, has, she, thank, ye, ony, room, at, there, my, marg'ret are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'a, and, when, is are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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