This is an analysis of the poem Where Be Ye Going, You Devon Maid? that begins with:
WHERE be ye going, you Devon maid?
And what have ye there i' the basket?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cbXX cXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101101 111111010 111010110010 0111110110 1111111110 11111010 110111101 1111100 111111111 11111010 11101001010 0111010 1111011001 111111011 110100101 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ye, i, love, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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