This is an analysis of the poem The Jew's Daughter that begins with:

The rain rins doun through Mirry-land toune,
Sae dois it doune the Pa:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX baca XdXd XaXa XaXX cXeX XXaa bXeX XXeX eXdX XXbX XbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 011111011 110101 110101011 1011101 111101010 11110110 11101110 01111010 11110111 0100110 11110111 1101101 1111101010 111101 111011101 0111011 11110111 111101 111101011 111110 11110101 111101 11011111 01111010 11100101 111111 11100111 110101 101111111 11001011 110101011 1101011 11110101 111111 1110001010 1010110 1101111011 111011 110100111 111111 1010100111 110101 110111101 111101 110101010 010101 01111011 01111 11111101 111101 110111011 011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; cum, in, and, out, cam, him, lady are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sae, and, a are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, scho 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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