This is an analysis of the poem Madge: Ye Hoyden that begins with:
At Madge, ye hoyden, gossips scofft,
Ffor that a romping wench was shee--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXbcb X dedeaeX X fcfcgcX X bcbXXca c fXXaXab c cbcbdbX X hchXdXX X ahahiXX X bhbXfXX X bXbghgh c ejejcXX X XXXhcXc X dkdkgkX X hfXfcfX X bkbXckX X XaiabXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11010111 10101001101 1000111010 1111011 1001000101 111101 1 11111111 11010111 11111101 11000101 11110111 01010111 101110 1 10100011 01010101 10110101 11110101 101110101 11110101 1101010 1 11110101 100110101 1111110011 1010110010 11101110 11100111 011101 1 101011101 1010110100 1111011001 1011011 11001111 11110101 10111 1 1111011 11011001 11110111 11110101 01111111 10011011 10111 1 110110111 11111001 11101101 111101010 11110111 10010111 11101 1 11110001 11100111 111010001 110100101 11111110 11101011 1101110 1 11010101 01011101 1010111011 10101011100 11110101 110100001 11111100 1 11110101 1101011100 1111011 1110111 11010101 101011 0101101 1 11111101 110011111 111001011 11111101 11011111 101011101 0101010 1 110110010 111101100 11001101 01110111 11111101 101011101 010101 1 10111111 1111111 11011101 11011101 110111111 1101111 1101110 1 11110111 110001111 11111011 11011011 11101111 11111110 1101010 1 1111011 11110101 11111101 11111111 11110101 11011101 011101 1 10110110 01010111 11110101 11011111 11110111 01010101 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 31
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 127
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; you, her, and, ye are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, nor, he, ffor are repeated.
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