This is an analysis of the poem Airlin's Fine Braes that begins with:
O I've walked o'er yon countries baith early and late
Among Airlin's braw lasses I've had mony a lang seat.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX XXbX ccbX XXbX ddbX eebX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011011011 01101101110011 10100101111011 11101011011 1011101111111 10111011011 11101011111 11101011011 1011111101 1101101101001 10110111111011 11101011011 101001111110 0100101001 1001111111011 11101011011 11111011001 11101111011 10101110110111 101111011011 11111010101001 111110100110 110011110111 11101001011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, their 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 o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word braes at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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