This is an analysis of the poem Song—fragment—johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver that begins with:
WHEN first my brave Johnie lad came to this town,
He had a blue bonnet that wanted the crown;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabB XXXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011001 11011011001 111110011010 1110111110 1111011011 11001011001 111011110100 1110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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