This is an analysis of the poem Song—lady Onlie, Honest Luckie that begins with:
A' THE lads o' Thorniebank,
When they gae to the shore o' Bucky,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa aaXa XaXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011100 111001110 1101101 11011010 101011010 11111110 11011011 011101110 01110111 11100110 11010101 11011010 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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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