This is an analysis of the poem The Belles Of Mauchline that begins with:
IN Mauchline there dwells six proper young belles,
The pride of the place and its neighbourhood a';... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101111011 01001101001 1101101011 010110101001 1100111001 11111111001 110110011110 11001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; miss is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word miss is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word a' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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