This is an analysis of the poem The Dowie Houms Of Yarrow that begins with:
LATE at een, drinkin' the wine,
And ere they paid the lawin', ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcdX deaX Fgbc hcac agbX agbX gCbX aebX XcaX hcaC FgaC fcbX feac XcbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 1111010 11010001 1100010 11111101 1111110 110100101 10101110 11111101 1111110 111111101 10101110 110111001 1111011 11010101 11110010 111111111 1111110 10011111 10101110 11110101 1111011 11110101 10101110 11110101 1111011 11110101 10101110 1111111 10101110 111011101 1101010 11110101 1111010 01110101 11101110 101101001 11011010 11110101 10101110 1111111 1111110 10011111 10101110 110111001 1110011 11011111 10101110 11111101 1111010 11110101 1111110 11111101 1101110 01011101 1111110 111101111 1111110 11111111 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 60
- 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; my, she, his, ye, i, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same words 'o, she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words ', yarrow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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