This is an analysis of the poem The Maids Of The Mountains that begins with:
In the wild Weddin Mountains there live two young dames
Kate O'Meally, Bet Mayhew are their pretty names;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa aabb ccdd ccbX eXff ggXd eeff hhbbXaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 001101011111 110011011101 11001011011 111111101111 11011011011 11101011101 00101111001 11011011010 11001011111 01011001001 11001101001 11111011111 111010101111 11001011011 11101101011 01101011101 11001001011 11101101001 101001011111 11001001011 01001011101 11001011111 110011010100 1100110010110 01001001101 01111011001 11111111001 11001011011 110010111010 111011110110 101001011101 11101011011 11011001101 11111101001 101001001011 111001001011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, by, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, he, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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