This is an analysis of the poem The Laddie's Dear Sel' that begins with:
THERE'S a youth in this city, it were a great pity
That he from our lassies should wander awa';... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010000110 11011011010 1111111010 101101001011 01001101011 01001101101 01111101101 101101011011 110110010010 110110011011 110010111110 01001011001 111010111011 1101111101 1110010110010 101011111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; his, weel, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his 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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