This is an analysis of the poem For He Was Scotch, And So Was She that begins with:
THEY were a couple well content
With what they earned and what they spent,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabB ccddbB eeddbB bbeebB ffggbB aaaaXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010110 01111111 110111001 11111111 11110101 110010101 11010001 11010111 11011101 11111111 11010111 11110111 11111101 11010001 11011110 11111111 01011101 11011111 11110101 11011111 01111101 11111111 11111101 11010111 11110101 01010111 11011101 11111111 11011101 01110111 10011111 11110001 110101010 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines burns is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word she at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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