This is an analysis of the poem The Bonny Hind that begins with:
O May she comes, and may she goes,
Down by yon gardens green,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb adcd eXXX ebbX XXfX eded ebfX eDfX dDbX cgXg fXfb XdeX XCXc eXXX XCXX edXX fdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 111101 11110101 111100 11111111 111101 11110111 1011111 11111011 111100 1110111110 111100 111010111 110101 111100101 1000101 10110111 011101 10100100 1101110 11110011 111101 11110011 111101 11111001 011111 110011010 1100110 11111101 111111 10110110 111111 11111101 111111 10110111 111101 110011101 111101 11110011 110101 111101010 0011001 1111001010 100101 11111101 010101 111111101 011101 111111101 101101 11110101 111101 10001101 011111 111111101 011101 111111101 101101 11011101 1100010 11111111 111111 111111101 010101 101111010 110101 111111101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 68
- 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; she, and, me, your, her, be, lee, ye, his, you, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words 'ye, and 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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- summary of The Bonny Hind;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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