This is an analysis of the poem O Lassie Ayont The Hill! that begins with:
O lassie ayont the hill,
Come ower the tap o' the hill,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAAaXXBA cXcX XcXcAAAd efXFFXfeD XgXggegXD hahaaXah AAAXXXBA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,9,9,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001 11001101 11001101101 1001001 0101101 101011110 010110101 11011001 1010100111 110110 01111111111 11111011 0110111 0111101 111010101 1110111 1101001 11001101 11001101101 10010011 111111101 1010111 011101111 1101011 1101011 110110 1101011111 1111011 11010011 1111110110 11101001 1111011011 11100101 11111011 10101001 11101011011 1111101 11010011 1111011111 1111111 010111111 10111101 10111101 1011011 11101011111 110101 1101001 11001101 11001101101 1111101 0101101 101011110 010110101 11011001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hill, and, my, o' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words come, i, by are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hill, a', mair, sel, nicht are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word c at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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