This is an analysis of the poem Song—the Rigs O' Barley that begins with:
IT was upon a Lammas night,
When corn rigs are bonie,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcbcb XXab dbdBXbXBE fbfBabaBE ghghXbXBE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11111 01011001 1110010 01111101 1101110 11010101 0111010 111101 11111 11011101 1001110 01110111 0111010 11011100 1001110 11011111 1101010 11011101 1001110 1111011 11001101 0111010 11011101 1001110 11011111 11110110 11111101 1001110 1111011 11011111 1101010 11010101 1101010 110101011 1111010 11011101 1001110 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; rigs, i, her, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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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