This is an analysis of the poem My Bonnie Mary that begins with:
GO fetch to me a pint o' wine,
An' fill it in a silver tassie, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXaXa Xabababa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 11000101 11110111 110011010 01110111 110111010 01110101 111111010 01010101 110011110 01111101 110101110 1011011111 111101010 111111101 1110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; 's is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word mary at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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