This is an analysis of the poem The Lass That Made The Bed To Me that begins with:

When Januar' wind was blawing cauld,
As to the north I took my way, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbc DXDadXeX aaaA ddfddbeX e daaXXXfA e XaXAfaXa e XXdXXXaX e eaaAXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,4,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 10011111 01010110 11110111 11110111 10010111 11010101 01000101 11111001 1101010 11111001 11010101 11011111 11111101 110100101 1110111110 1001110101 01110101 110110111 01110101 11010001 11110111 111010101 01110111 01110111 1110101 10010101 11110101 10 101111111 101010100 11110111 111110000 01110111 0101010 01110101 01110101 10 01010101 11011101 01010101 01110101 1101011001 11111101 11011101 01011111 10 01010111 1101010 11111111 1110011010 11011101 101110001 111010101 1111101010 10 11010101 11010101 1110110 01110101 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 61
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, she, lass, made, bed, to, me, like, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, her are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, head are repeated).

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