This is an analysis of the poem The Laird Of Waristoun that begins with:
Down by yon garden green,
Sae merrily as she gaes;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXBX Bcdc EFgX bcXc hfcg EFdX hXbf XacX cfcf XfaX XfcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 1100111 111111 1110101 111111 110001 1110010 110111 1101110 1110100 0101110 010111 110101 010110 1101101 1011111 1101010 011101 1111011 111100 1101110 1110100 11101 01101 01110010 1100111 010101 11011001 110101 10010001 10101101 011100 111111 1111010 11101011 10101101 111101 110111 110101 111011 1110111 1110111 111101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she is repeated.
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