This is an analysis of the poem Willie's Ladye that begins with:
Willie has ta'en him o'er the faem,
He's wooed a wife, and brought her hame;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa Xbcc XDXeXX fFBX DXEX CDdd adcXXX FFBX DXEX Cdgg XcXX FfbX DXEX ddhhXe hHaa XcdDXX hHaaXX dDXbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011001 11011101 11010101 101010101 110101001 11011100 10011101 110110001 10010111 11110101 11110101 01110101 010011011 110010001 101110010 100101010 11111101 11110101 10011101 0101110110 11011101 11110111 111011001 11110101 1111101 0101100101 11010101 11010101 110010111 1010110101 010011001 111010011 101111010 100101010 11111101 11110101 10011101 0101110110 11011101 11110111 111011001 11110101 11111010 01110010 11110101 11010111 010011001 111010011 101111010 101101010 11111101 11110101 10011101 0101110110 11011101 11110111 11110101 11100101 11100101 11110101 11011101 100110111 11110111 10101101 1110101001 10101101 11110111010 11010111 11110101 11011101 11110111 1111101 11010111 10101101 11010101001 10001101 1110101010 1100110110 11110101 11011101 11110111 11011100 1111100101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; her, be, may, that, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he's, and are repeated.
The author used the same word 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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