This is an analysis of the poem Song—to Daunton Me that begins with:
THE BLUDE-RED rose at Yule may blaw,
The simmer lilies bloom in snaw,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaaa bbaAA XXXaA XXaAA ccXaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111111 01010101 01110101 1111110101 0101010101 111110101 01011111 10111101 100111101 1111110101 01011 11011101 11011101 1101111 111110101 01011 011111110 011111110 11111111 1111110101 01011 11011111 1010110111 10111101101 111110101 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; me, daunton, to, his, a', for, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, for, his are 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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