This is an analysis of the poem The Bonnie House O' Airlie that begins with:
IT fell on a day, and a bonnie simmer day,
When green grew aits and barley, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dbXb XXeb bXeX XXfX dbab eXfb cbfb XXed XbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011010101 1111110 11110101 1001110 01111101 1101010 11110101010 110010010 1010011001010 11111100 11110101 10100101010 1111110100 1111110 111010101 111010101010 1110010110 1111110 10111111101 10111010010 1110111101 11101010 111000111 1110101010 11100101011 1111110 1101101011 1110010010 11111101 1100110 10111010101 10100100010 11111111 110001 1110100101 111101 1101111101 101011010 11111101 11010110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, down, they, it, hae, sought are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, they are repeated.
The author used the same word 'gif at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words airlie, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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