This is an analysis of the poem Cairnsmill Den that begins with:
As I, with hopeless love o'erthrown,
With love o'erthrown, with love o'erthrown,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXAXb CBCCCB DdADd EeAEX FXAFX AaAAa GgAGX BbABbXCBCCCB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,5,5,5,5,5,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101100 0110001100 100111 110101100 11010101 1111110 0101 110110 1111010 1111110 0101 01110101 01010101 100111 01110101 11111111 11110101 11011101 100111 11110101 11010111 11111101 01010101 100111 11111101 11011011 11111101 11011101 100111 11111101 01110101 11110111 01110111 100111 11110111 11111011 11110101 01010101 100111 11110101 11111101 1111110 0101 110110 1111010 1111110 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; with, love, o'erthrown, i, morning, one, within, wood, and, what, brought, her, there, you, hill, climbed, we, so, high, top, in, cairnsmill, den are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, says, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines o'erthrown, morning, wood, there, hill, high, den are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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