This is an analysis of the poem My Lord A-Hunting He Is Gane that begins with:
Chorus.—MY lady's gown, there's gairs upon't,
And gowden flowers sae rare upon't;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXXA bXbXA ccccA ddXdA XeeeA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011110 110101110 11011100 11110110 11010101 11111111 11010101 01010011 11011 11011101 111111001 101111101 010101010 11011 1101111011 11110101 1111011 01000100 11011 11010101 11011001 010100111 11011101 11011 11011101 010110101 1010101101 11010111 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; upon't, my, lady's are repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines upon't is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word c at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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