This is an analysis of the poem John Rouat The Fisherman that begins with:
Margaret Simpson was the daughter of humble parents in the county of Ayr,
With a comely figure, and face of beauty rare,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc deXX ffed ggbb ccbb Xchh ccgg ccii jjkX iibb bbii bbll kkde ccXkkbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10010101001010001001 001010110101 11001100101 101001101010 11001000101110101 0101111111111 1110101111011 110001110101 110101101001 01010010101 110101010100100 111010011010 1010101111101 11101011011001 1101010110001 1100011100011 11010110101010101 111010111001 1111010101001111 1111011110011 11010101111 101001000011101 1101001111010 100100110111010 11010101110101100 111100001010111 110001010111010101 10101010111111 111101100101001 11101011000101 111100100101 10110111001 110011001010101101 1010001010101011 11101111100101 0100100101101 01111010101001101 11111101011101 11011111101 110001101001001010 101110010101 10111101001111 110100001010111 100111101110101 101001001100111 011010001110100011 110011101011100 1111010101101 1001111001101 01110101101 01011101010101 111011111111 011111010101 1101011100101 100100111011 11010100110101 111101001101 010010010110101010 111110010010101 0100101011110111100101011 1001001010101 1101110111101 110110111001111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, his, to, her, by, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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