Poem Analysis of The Queen's Marie by Anonymous for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The Queen's Marie that begins with:

MARIE HAMILTON 's to the kirk gane,
Wi' ribbons in her hair; ...

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Rhyme scheme: XaBa XcBc XdBd Cbcb Cebe Xece befX XXXXgX bhbcfX begX bebX hbeb cbXb begX bbbb debX debe cecX Xebe baGa bgGg DXcX Dece ceXeXbebe
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: ballad stanza
Metre: 0110010011 110001 0111101100 110101 0110010011 110101 0111101100 1110001 0110010011 110101 0111101100 1011101 110001011 111101 11101011011 1010101 110001011 111101 1101101100 1100100 01000101 110101 01011011 1010100 111100010 110101 111111101 111111 1000101 110001 11000101 100101 1011001101 1010111110 10111101 1101001 11110111 11011 1011001111 11111101 11111101 111100 11010011 110101 111101100 111101 11110010001 1110101 11010111 110111 11011101 1100101 0111010 1101101 110011110 1101101 11010100 110111 1101110101 101100 110101100 111101 1111010001 110011 11111101 111111 11110010001 111001 11110101 1110101 1111011101 110101 111001001 111101 111100101 111001 10011110 111111 11011010110 10111011 11011111 1110101 111101101 1100011 1011111 110101 111101101 110101 11111100 111101 11011011011 110101 11111100 110101 11011011011 111001 1011011011 111101 110100111 1110111 11001101 111101 01110100 1011101
Amount of stanzas: 25
Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
Average number of words per stanza: 26
Amount of lines: 104
Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
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; to, word, and, no, up, slowly, she, hooly, ye, marie, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, that, the are repeated.
The author used the same words marie, she, when, 'i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words be, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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