This is an analysis of the poem Song (Here's A Health To Thee, Mary...) that begins with:
Here's a health to thee, Mary,
Here's a health to thee;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcca abdda abeeaXabcca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110 10101 01011 11101 01011110 11111110110 1101111 10111 10101 01110110 1110111110 1111101 111111 10111 11110110 01110110 110101 11101 11101 1110100110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words here's, and, аnd are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mary is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word mary at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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