This is an analysis of the poem The Braes O' Yarrow that begins with:
Late at e'en, drinking the wine,
And ere they paid the lawing,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbXcXbdcX edaX efbd gdad gdbX gfbD adcX adbd adbX Xfed hdaX hdXX bdXd Xdhd hdbX hdcXXefgD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101001 1111010 11010001 0100010 11101101 1111010 11111100 1111110 11111111 1111110 110100101 10101010 11111101 1101110 10111101 10101110 110111001 1111011 11010011 1110010 11110101 11110010 1111001 10101110 11110111 0101010 11110111 0101110 11110111 1111011 11110111 0101110 11011101 1111110 10111111 10101110 11111111 10101110 101011001 1101010 11111101 1111010 01110101 10101110 010111001 1111011 1110101 1101010 11011111 1101010 11110101 1111110 11111011 1100010 11011111 1101110 11010101 1011110 11010110 1110010 11010011 11011010 11010101 1111110 111100101 1101110 11100101 1111110 11111011 1111110 01011100 1111110 110111001 1111011 11010101 0101110
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; my, she, his, she's are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'i, 'i'll are repeated.
The author used the same words she's, 'o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words ', yarrow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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