This is an analysis of the poem Song—down The Burn, Davie Love that begins with:
AS down the burn they took their way,
And thro' the flowery dale;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 1101001 01001101 111101 010011101 1100100 110101101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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