This is an analysis of the poem Epistle To Mrs. Scott Of Wauchope House that begins with:
GUDEWIFE,I MIND it weel in early date,
When I was bardless, young, and blate,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXXbbcbXdXXX Xeaffaghghbcic dXbhhbXiXigXdf ccbjjbkXkebXXc XhbhhblXlibXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001010101 11110111 111101 11010101 11100110 110101 11100101 011101 11011101 111111 110110 010101 110110 100110 101011101 011011010 110111 11111101 110011111 110111 01110101 100101 11010101 110101 110110 1101011 011111 111101 11010011 01010111 110011 11111101 11000101 110101 1101011 1101110 01010101 1111110 11010 1100101 110110 11101 10011111 11010101 1101010 01110101 011101001 0101010 11011101 0101110 11010111 1101000 111111 110101 011011 11011 11110111 11010101 101111 01011101 11110001 111001 1011111 110111 11010101 11010010 111111 110011 110110 111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 424
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, ye're are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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