This is an analysis of the poem The Ew-Bughts Marion. A Scottish Song. that begins with:
Will ze gae to the ew-bughts, Marion,
And wear in the sheip wi' mee?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXbab aXaXabab ababaaXX aXaaaXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110011100 1100111 01111100 1111111 11000101 1011001 11111100 1100111 1010110100 11011110 111111100 1110111 1011010100 10111111 1110111100 1100111 11111100 0110101 111101100 110101 11101110 1101101 111100100 10011001 11111100 1111101 111101100 1111111 111110100 11110 111111111 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word mee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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