This is an analysis of the poem Nora's Vow that begins with:
Hear what Highland Nora said, -
'The Earlie's son I will not wed,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdX eeffbbdX ffdXbbdX aagghhdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 11011011 11010101 11011111 11011101 11011111 11010111 11110101 11011101 11011101 01010101 01010101 01111101 11010111 11010101 11010101 11111111 11010101 010111101 11011110 11011101 01111111 11011101 11010101 10010111 01010111 110111110 1101010110 01010101 11011101 11010111 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; all is 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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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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