This is an analysis of the poem 516. Song—I'll aye ca' in by yon town that begins with:
Chorus—I'll aye ca' in by yon town,
And by yon garden-green again;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa babaC XcacaC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101110111 11110101 1110111 1111101 11111111 11110101 11110101 11011101 11101 11010101 11011101 11010111 11110101 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; yon, by 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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