This is an analysis of the poem Lass Of Cessnock Banks, The that begins with:
A Song of Similes
Tune - 'If he be a Butcher neat and trim.'... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X abaX bbbX cbcX bbbX dbdX eXeX fbfX gbgX fbfX hbeX hbhX abaX cbcX ibiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010100 1110010111 11010101 11010111 11011101 1111100101 11010101 11010101 111101001 1111100101 11011101 11010101 11010101 1111100101 11010101 01111111 11000101 1111100101 01110101 11010101 110111001 1111100101 01010101 110101110 11010111 1111100101 010010101 11010101 11010101 1111100101 01111101 010101001 110010101 1111100101 01010101 11010101 11010101 1111100101 01111101 11010101 11011101 1111100101 01110101 01010101 11010101 1111100101 01010101 11010101 11010101 1111100101 01010101 11110101 101110001 1111100101 101010101 11010101 101110101 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The author used the same words she's, her at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word een at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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