This is an analysis of the poem Mary Bateman that begins with:

My love she wears a cotton plaid,
A bonnet of the straw;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababab cdcdee fcfcff ghghee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 010001 01110101 011101 01101101 111101 01110011 111101 01011101 111101 110100101 11110101 11110101 01010101 11010111 11111111 11011101 11010101 11010101 01111111 010111001 110010101 11010111 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; as, all are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, i are repeated.

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