This is an analysis of the poem The Spaewife that begins with:
OH, I wad like to ken—to the beggar-wife says I—
Why chops are guid to brander and nane sae guid to fry. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXA AaaA AaaA AXaAXAaaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010010111 1111010111101 110111101010101 011110101010101 1111010010111 1101001110111 0100111010001 011110101010101 1111010010111 111001100001 11001100110111 011110101010101 1111010010111 111101110001 11110111110101 011110101010101 1111010010111 01010110100101 110100101010011 011110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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