This is an analysis of the poem Ailsie, My Bairn that begins with:
Lie in my arms, Ailsie, my bairn,--
Lie in my arms and dinna greit;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa XbbX Xaca XdXd Xada Xcdc Xece XcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 10111101 1101111011 1110100111 1111111 1100101101 1011101101 1001001010 110111111 111110101 110011101 1110111111 110101111 100110111 10100101101 1111100111 111111111 11111111 1111111011 1111001 1100100101 1110111111 1100100111 100110111 10111111 1111101101 011111100 1111011101 111110111 11111111 00110111011 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, of, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word lie is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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