This is an analysis of the poem The Bonnie House O' Airly that begins with:
It fell on a day, and a bonnie summer day,
When the corn grew green and yellow,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbX cdXX XdcX edbX cdcX XXXX XdaX XXXX eXad XdbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011010101 10111110 11110101 0111110 01111110011 01001010 11001101110 0100101110 01011001011 1111110 111100111 10100101110 11111010011 1111110 101010111 1110101010 11011111 1101110 11011111 11101010110 11100101011 11010110 1111101011 10010010 11011101 1101110 110001011 1110101110 1110010110 1111110 11010111 11100101110 1011101111 10101101 110111101 11101010 111011011 10110110 1110100101 1100101110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; and, o', to, down, kiss, thee, wadna, it, they, sought, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, 'come, i, they 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.
The poet repeated the same words airly, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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