This is an analysis of the poem O Leave Novels! that begins with:
O LEAVE novels, 1 ye Mauchline belles,
Ye're safer at your spinning-wheel;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXXbaX XbXXcbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101 11011101 11011101 11011110 11111100 11110101 111111011 11111110 01011101 01110101 11011101 11010110 01110101 11110101 01111100 11010110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 17
- 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; your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word mossgiel at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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