This is an analysis of the poem The Bonnie Lass O' Dundee that begins with:
O' a' the toons that I've been in,
I dearly love Dundee,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXCAA bXdaXAXaA XaeaCAXA baXaCAA eXaaCAA XaXaaXXda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,8,7,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100 110101 01010101 01110101011001 111001 11010101011 111001 010111011001 1100111 101011 10100010 110101 11010101011 111001 11111110 1011101 010111011001 01110100 110101 101001101 10110101 11010101011 111001 111111011011001 010111011001 010010001 111101 10101110 101111 11010101011 111001 010111011001 1110100 11001011 101111 11110101 11010101011 111001 010111011001 0100110 1010101 1010011 1010101 1110101 0101110 101011 101111 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word dundee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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