This is an analysis of the poem Song—crowdie Ever Mair that begins with:
O THAT I had ne'er been married,
I wad never had nae care,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX Xbab bXaXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 1110111 1110111 1111000100 101111 111001 111101 1111101 10111011 1010101 1110101 11010111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; crowdie is repeated.
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