This is an analysis of the poem Young Benjie that begins with:
Of all the maids of fair Scotland,
The fairest was Marjorie;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd eXfd dXXd aXfb cXXX adgd chcX fXiX XXXi fhgi jXjX jXjX gaja XdfX fefe fXfX jiXX iiaX jhXX XhXh Xigi aiXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010110 0101100 11110111 1011111 11110101 11110 11011111 010111 111100101 1100111 111110101 11111 11111110 11110 11110111 010100 11010111 1101111 11001011 1110110 11111101 111111 11110101 1111001 11111111 111111 01110101 11111 110010101 011001 1100100110 111101 11111101 1111110 1100011 1101001 01110111 111001 11110101 011011 111001010 1111111 111101010 10110100 11101010 111101 111101010 100101101 11100101 110101 101111110 111101 110001100 0101001 11111111 111101 01011101 110101 01011111 1101101 01010001 010101 110110001 010101 11111110 110101 11111111 1111001 1110111 111101 11111110 1111001 1111110 11111 111110111 1101111 1101110 11011 111110111 1101111 10110101 111110 1011100111 01111 1111001011 111001 11010111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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, open, lee, ye, her, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he are repeated.
The author used the same words and, then 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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