This is an analysis of the poem It Was A Lover And His Lass that begins with:
IT was a lover and his lass,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaBCC dXdBCC eXeBCC bXbbCC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 101101101100 110011101 100110101011 111111011 1101001 01010001 101101101100 11010111 100110101011 111111011 1101001 010101110 101101101100 11111010 100110101011 111111011 1101001 11110011 101101101100 110100001 000110101011 111111011 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, hey, ding are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word spring at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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