This is an analysis of the poem Merry Maid that begins with:

Bonny and stout and brown, without a hat,
She frowns offended when they call her fat--... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeccff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1011110101 1101011101 1110010001 1111110101 1111011111 1101111101 0101011111 10101010101 11111101001 1101000111 1101011101 0101010101 1100011101 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 594
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word but is repeated.

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