This is an analysis of the poem Jamie Telfer that begins with:

It fell about the Martinmas tyde,
When our Border steeds get corn and hay... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXb XaXX XcXX XXda XXXX eXfX XXfX XAXa XacX fXea XagX hXXX iXXa XaXX iabX jaja XafX XadX fXXX gaba XXXa XAXX haeX hkXa ghXX XajX eXXX ledX aXkX jafX jdXX eXXa hXXe ldfd aXeX XXhk eaea aede hagX haha fhfX XXXX XdXd beXX XaXX XaXa fXfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010101001 111011111 01001011101 111001000101 01111111 0111100 01011111 011101010 11011011010 1101101101 111100110 100111111 111100110 11001101 11011111 11000111 11010111 01110001 1110100101 11100110 01011111 11110011 11110101 110111010 0111110111 0101010111 1010111101 010101011 1111001101 11011111 1110110100 10110101 11101010110 101011110 110110110 101011101 111101101 11011111 1111011111 111111001 10111101 11011001 1111010001 101101101 11111100 11111101 11111101 110111101 111100101 10111111 11100101 111101111 11101111 10110101 11101010110 01011110 1010100110 101011101 11111001 11011110 10011111 10110111 11110101010 1110100101 1111010101 11111111 1111010101 001000101 111100100 11011111 11111101 11010101 11101010110 01011110 01001011011 11111101 10111101 10111101 110110110 1101111010 110111111 10010101 111111010 010110101 11110101 11011111 11111110 11010101 11101010110 101011110 11100110 101011101 101110111 110110111 111111011 111110110 11010111 11011100 111011101 1010100111 11110101 10010101 11001100 11001100 11011100 11010101 111101001 1101011000 01110111 1101110 110101101 11110100 011100101 10101001 110110101 11011110 11111101 1111011 1101011010 11011111 101110111 1011110111 110111101101 1111111111 11010111 101111111 110110101 0101001110 11011101 111101 111100100 100110110 1101101001 110100111 11011101 11010111 111010111 11110001 01011111 10110101 101001111 111101 11110001 110110011 110011100 01010111 111100101 011100100 1110111 111111111 110110101 11010111 01011101001 11010111 01110101 11100111001 11110101 11110110 111110100 101110111 110100101 1000101111 101110001001 10010011101 111110101 110101001 11100110101 1110100101 1101101011 011101010 1110101000 01010101 111001000 11111101 11110101 11011101 1111110010 01110101 11110101 11001101 111010101 11011111 110110101 01010111 11100110 10010101 101001111 10101101011 11110101 111111 1101001101 111100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 48
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 192
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; to, tidings, and, they, i, succour, my, may, he, ', o' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, 'alack, or, 'i, and, they are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, but 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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