This is an analysis of the poem I Love My Love In Secret that begins with:
MY Sandy gied to me a ring,
Was a' beset wi' diamonds fine;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaa bbbbb XXccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010101 11011101 111101101 111101101 1011011101 111101 101111 011111 111110101101 11010111 11010111 110111001 1110101011 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- 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; gied, my, sandy, o are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines o is repeated).
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