This is an analysis of the poem Fair Annie that begins with:
THE reivers they stole Fair Annie,
As she walk'd by the sea; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX dded fcaXgX fhfX fhfX fgXg giiX iXbX chfhfX jfjf kflf gXgX fcdX fkfkaX fbmX kclc hXhX jckc nfff fono mXjX kbfX fbkb fjnj lckX jXeX klkX llgX lcac gbXb XbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011110 111101 1010110101 11111 110010111 111111 110010101 110101 111010111 110111 101101110 111011 10101111 111111 11011101 111101 11010111 1111010 011011101 111101 11010111 1111010 11110111 111101 11110111 110101 11111101 110111 11111101 1011111 11111101 110111 11111101 111110 11100110 110011 11110111 110111 11010111 1111010 111010111 110111 10111111 1011101 1110011001 100001 11111001010 110111 11111101 110101 11010111 111011 1110011011 111011 11010101 100101 111011111 11101110 11011111 11111110 110011110 1111101 110101111 110111 11010101 111101 11010110 1011101 11110110 110101 11110110 110101 111101010 110101 11010111 110101 01010101 111110 11011111 111111 01110101 111001 1111001001 111101 111110111 110011 11110101 1010101 11100111 1111001 11110101 1011101 11100011 1101111 111101011 111111 1111101011 1001111 1111110111 1110111 101111101 1100101 1111111110 111101 110110101 10111110 110011101 111111 101111111 1111010010 1111111011 11111110 111101011 11110010 110101110 110010110 1100111101 11111110 1010101110 111111 101111010 111101 11101101 1101011 010110101 111101 101101 110111 1100111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 31
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 130
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; she, maiden, my, her, doun, your, that, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words wi', and, 'noo are repeated.
The author used the same word 'o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hair is repeated).
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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