This is an analysis of the poem Johnie Faa that begins with:
The gypsies came to our good lord's gate
And wow but they sang sweetly!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc dXeX fcXc XXfX egfX dXeX dXeg dXeX XbXX ebXXXfbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101011 1111110 1111111001 1110110 11110101 1101010 111110111 11010100 11011101 110111 111111101011 111111111 111001101 1110010 111001101 0111010 11110110 110101 101111111 1100101 101100111 1101011 1011100101 1101011 10111101 1101111 11111101011 11111111 110101101 1101011 111111101011 11111111 110101101 1101011 11110111 111111111 111111110 11010110 0111101010 110101010 110010111 11011110 011110111 1111110 11001111 1010110 11011111 10111010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, come, gied, and, your, to, my, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, 'o are repeated.
The author used the same word 'i'll 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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