This is an analysis of the poem O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day that begins with:
Tune - "Invercauld's Reel, or Strathspey."
Choir. - O Tibbie, I hae seen the day,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaaa bXbaA cccaA dddaA eeXaA ccXaA bXbXA fffaAXdddaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100011100 1011011101 110011 11111101 111111 10111101 11111111 11110101 110111 110111011 11011111 01011111 11111101 1111011 110111011 11111111 01110111 11111101 1001101 110111011 11011111 10011101 11010101 111111 110111011 100101011 01110101 11111001 110111 110111011 10110111 110011010 11011111 010101 110111011 11011101 11011111 01011111 011111 110111011 11010111 11010001 11111101 111111 110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, ye are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ye is repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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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