This is an analysis of the poem The Banks O' Doon that begins with:
YE flowery banks o' bonnie Doon,
How can ye blume sae fair! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba Cdbd CeXe XfXf Bfff Bgbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110011101 111111 11111101 111111 11111101 110101 11110101 111111 11111101 110111 11111111 110111 111101101 110101 11011101 110111 11011101 100101 11110101 111111 11011101 100101 11110111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; ye is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, and are repeated.
The author used the same words thou'll, wi' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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