This is an analysis of the poem The Outlaw that begins with:
O, Brignall banks are wild and fair,
And Greta woods are green, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaBcdcX aBAX dbdbedeX ABAb bebXbfbX Adad XgXXgaga adad ededfXfX XXaBaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,4,8,4,8,4,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 110111 11110101 110101 11111101 010101 01010101 110100 11011111 110111 11010101 111101 11011101 0111011 11111111 111111 10111101 111111 10011111 111101 11110111 110111 11010101 111101 11111101 111100 11110101 010111 11010101 111101 01011101 111101 11110111 110111 11100101 010101 11011100 110011 11110110 110101 11110101 110101 11010101 111101 11110101 110101 11010101 111101 10010111 010111 01110101 010111 11001111 010111 11101101 111111 10 11011111 110111 11110101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, as, at, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and 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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