This is an analysis of the poem My Highland Lassie, O that begins with:
Nae gentle dames, tho' e'er sae fair,
Shall ever be my muse's care;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbXB ccbbC ddbbC eebbC aabbC ffbbbbbB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,5,5,5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111011 11001101 11011101 11110101 01011101 10011101 11111100 01110101 10111101 11011101 0110111 11110101 0101 11010111 11110101 11110101 11110101 0101 10110111 11010101 101010101 11010101 0101 10110101 10110101 110011101 01110101 0101 11111111 11011101 101011111 01110101 11011101 11011101 01011111 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; o, yon, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, farewell, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines o is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word glen at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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