This is an analysis of the poem Song—i Hae Been At Crookieden that begins with:
I HAE been at Crookieden,
My bonie laddie, Highland laddie,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXaX XXXXbXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101100 111101 1010101 111101 1111111 111101 1111111 111101 1010011 111101 1010101 111101 01010101 111101 11011111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; laddie is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word laddie at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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