This is an analysis of The Maid Of The Sweet Brown Knowe by Anonymous English.
COME all ye lads and lassies and listen to me a while,
And I’ll sing for you a verse or two will cause you all to smile;…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccbX ccbX bbbX cXcc ddbX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11111101100101 111110111011101 010101111100111 1110101000100111 11110110110101 1111010110100 11110111110011 1111101010100111 0111011111101 01011101110001 111111011111101 1110101010100111 111101111111 11010101111101 11010101110111 111101110100111 01111011110111 11101100110111 101111101110101 11111111111110101 0111111110100111 111011101111111 11111111010011 1111111110100111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
and, you, all, to, we, my, for, i
Anaphora
we, look
