This is an analysis of the poem Montgomerie's Peggy that begins with:
Tune - "Galla Water."
Altho' my bed were in yon muir,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXab cbcbXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100100 10110011 10010011 11010110 1111100010 110011101 110101110 11111011 1101100010 01010111 111101010 11111101 0100100010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i'd is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word peggy at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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