This is an analysis of the poem Song—kissing My Katie that begins with:
O MERRY hae I been teethin' a heckle,
An' merry hae I been shapin' a spoon; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd XeXefbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010010 1101101001 11011010010 1101101111 11011111110 1101111011 11011110110 1101111001 1001110110 1100101001 10010110010 1100111101 1011110110 1101111101 1011010110 1100110001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hae, i, been, merry, lang, a', my, katie, to are repeated.
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