This is an analysis of the poem The Outlaw that begins with:
Oh, I wadna be a yeoman, mither, to follow my father's trade,
To bow my back in miry banks, at pleugh and hoe and spade.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc bbdd ddee ffcc ffee ddcc eeXd cccX eecc cccc X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11100010100101101 01110101111111 10111110111001 10111111011111 1110001100111 1010011100010101 101011101010111 101000010101110111 1110001010001101 101110101010101 101011101001001 1011101010111 1110001010011101 101010101010101 1010110101010111 111111010010101 0111001101110111 111110101011111 1111010111110111 11011101110111 11111011101111 1111110101110101 110111101010111 101011110101011 11110101101010111 111111001111 111111011010111 0010101111010111 101101001100101 1011101010111 1011111010101 101111101010101 101110101010101 111011101010101 101010101010101 10101110010010111 110111010010111 111110011010001 1111111101111101 1101110111111100 1101101101001101 1111010110111 1111111011100101 010011011110111 001101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, i, at, ye'll are repeated.
The author used the same word nor at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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