This is an analysis of the poem Bonnie Callander that begins with:
Chorus --
Bonnie Helen, will you go to Callander with me... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbXbccc a ddee a eeff a ggff a ddbb a bcee a bbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10 1010011010001 11010101010100 1100010111001 1111101110101 100001010111001 1010001010100100 11100010101100100 101110010100 10 1111011101001 010001100100101 001011001001 1001101010001 10 0111010100110 010010011101010 11010010011101 01001100001010101 10 1011101000100101 101101011010011 1101100111 1011010100101 10 111101100101 011111110101 01001011101011 110100101110101 10 01010011101001 001011100101010100 1010100010101 001010010110110111 10 11000100111101 0010101001000101 1101100101 110010101000010011
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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