This is an analysis of the poem Waly, Waly that begins with:
O WALY, waly, up the bank,
And waly, waly, doun the brae, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXbXb XdXdceae cbabXbXX XXbbXbfX fgXggbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11010101 11010111 11111101 11111011 1101011 11011101 1111011 1101011010 11011001 11110101 11101101 110011111 110011111 11111101 11110111 11011011 111101011 11011011 111110101 10011111 11011101 11011111 1011111 11011101 1101100 11111111 11111101 11101111 10010101 111100110 1110010 11110111 11101101 1111100111 11010101 11011101 11010101 11100111 101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; waly, and, it, my, sall, be, in, i, had are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i 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.
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