This is an analysis of the poem Song—my Collier Laddie that begins with:
WHARE live ye, my bonie lass?
And tell me what they ca' ye;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXa XXbXa XcdXa bcXXa aXXXa aadXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 1111111 11110101 11100101 11111 1111111 011111 111111101 1111101 11111 11101010 1101110 110111001 1111101 11011 11110111 10101110 1111111101 1011101 111111 1111110001 111111 111100101 11111101 11111 111001011 10111111 1010110111 1111101 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 35
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word c at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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