This is an analysis of the poem The Beggar Maid that begins with:
All on a golden morning the beggar maid did go
To gather branch and berry, the hazel-nut and sloe....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXddeeaXeefXdX ggfXhhaaddcXeeaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010010101 0101110010111 1111010010101 01010010011101 1101010111111 1101111011011 1111010101111 1111110110101 0101110010111 1011010010101 1111110110101 1111010111111 1101111010111 0101110010111 1101010110111 1111010110101 1101010110001 11010111111100 1101010111100 1101010110111 1101010111101 1111110010111 01111100100111 11101111101110 1100010110101 11110110110101 0101010111111 1111010010101 1111010010111 1111010111101 1111110111101 11010101101010 1111011110101 1101010010101 1101100010111 1111010010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 979
- Average number of words per stanza: 198
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, i, ', your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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