This is an analysis of the poem Little Jamie that begins with:
Ither laddies may ha's finer claes, and may be better fed,
But nane o' them a'has sic a bonnie curly heid,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXB ccdB aaXdB dddB cXbdb eeXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011101110101 1110101010101 1111011011 111101111010 11111101111001001 01111101111111 111011011001 11101111010 1110001011111 1110111111101 1111101 101101110101 11101111010 111111011001101 1110101011101 1101111001 111101111010 0101011001 110101111110 11101111001100 10100101110101 11101111010 10011111101111 111111110101 11110010111 11101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word jamie at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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