This is an analysis of the poem Bonie Jean: A Ballad that begins with:
THERE was a lass, and she was fair,
At kirk or market to be seen;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dXXe fcfc gbXb XbcX XXhb dbeb cXhe chgh aece XefX XXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 11110001 11110101 0101111 11110101 1111110 01010101 11010111 11010101 110101001 110101010 11010101 11010101 010110101 11110111 11010111 11110001 11110101 11110101 01110111 10010001 011111010 110011101 0101011 11110101 11111111 11110110 11110101 10110111 11011001 11010111 110010101 01110001 01110101 01001101 11010111 101011111 11110101 11111101 11010111 101111111 11010101 11100101 110101110 11110101 11100111 11110101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; and, jeanie are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he, the, o are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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