This is an analysis of the poem Sir Hugh; Or The Jew's Daughter that begins with:
Four-and-twenty bonny boys
Were playing at the ba,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX bcXc dbeb eXeX fceX ggag hgdg igig ifdf jXgX bigi dfaX hbGX XbGbXgjgjdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 010101 11011111 1111001 11010011 110101 11110110 1101011 11100110 110101 11110110 1010101 11011110 110101 100110110 110111 1011111111 111101 111001110 011101 11101010 11110111 11011111 100110 11101111 111111 111101010 1101101 11110111 111101 111101011 111101 11100111 111111 111011011 110101 11011111 110111 1100101101 0101011 11010001 010101 11110101 1101001 11000110 110101 11011111 111011 11111101 011101 110111010 011011 11010011 110101 110111010 011001 100111010 011101 110111010 010111 11110100 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, ', i, come, to, him, came, out, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word she's 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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