This is an analysis of the poem Song—my Wife's A Winsome Wee Thing that begins with:
Chorus.—She is a winsome wee thing,
She is a handsome wee thing,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab cccbD XXXbD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101001011 1001011 10010011 011111 1101010 11010010 1111110 111101 100101 011111 011011 10110010 111101 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; wee, she, thing are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, i, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thing, o't are 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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