This is an analysis of the poem The Market-Wife's Song that begins with:
The butter an' the cheese weel stowit they be,
I sit on the hen-coop the eggs on my knee,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXXX cXXXX XXdeXX XXXXX XddXX eeXXX cccXX dXXXX ddbXX ffXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,6,5,5,5,5,5,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010111010 11101101111 0111111101 011101101 0110101101 111110111 1110111101 111001001101 110101111101 11111101101 111110111 11011101101 110101110110 0101110101 01001110101 0100101001 111110111 111011100111 1010111001101 110111111011 110101010101 111110111 10111011010110 11101111010111 11101110101 10101001101 111110111 110010111101111 1110101110101 111011111111 10110111111 111110111 0101011110111 111111110011 11111110110111 1111111011101 111110111 1111111111 011011011001 0111011011110 11110101110101 111110111 010101101111 111111111111 1101111101 01111110111 111110111 111101111101 101111110111 110111011101 101101111111 111101101101 111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, it, be, may, o', an', ye, wi', in, vain, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, it, an', his 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.
The poet repeated the same word twa at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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