Analysis of Kitty Reid's House
Carolina Oliphant 1766 (Perthshire ) – 1845 (Scotland)
Air - 'Country Bumpkin.'
Hech! hey! the mirth that was there,
The mirth that was there,
The mirth that was there;
Hech! how! the mirth that was there,
In Kitty Reid's house on the green, Jo.
There was laughin' and singin', and dancin' and glee
In Kitty Reid's house, in Kitty Reid's house,
There was laughin' and singin', an' dancin' and glee,
In Kitty Reid's house on the green, Jo.
Hech! hey! the fright that was there,
The fright that was there,
The fright that was there,
Hech! how! the fright that was there,
In Kitty Reid's house on the green, Jo.
The light glimmer'd in thro' a crack i' the wa',
An' a' body thocht the lift it would fa',
An' lads and lasses they soon ran awa'
Frae Kitty Reid's house on the green, Jo.
Hech! hey! the dule that was there,
The dule that was there,
The dule that was there,
The birds an' beasts it wauken'd them a',
In Kitty Reid's house on the green, Jo.
The wa' gaed a hurly and scatter'd them a',
The piper, the fiddler, auld Kitty, an' a',
The kye fell a routin', the cocks they did craw,
In Kitty Reid's house on the green, Jo.
Scheme | x aAAaBcxcB aAAaBdxdb aAAeBeexB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 1101111 01111 01111 1101111 010111011 111010101 0101101011 111011101 010111011 1101111 01111 01111 1101111 010111011 0110101101 1010101111 11011111 110111011 1101111 01111 01111 01111110 010111011 01101001010 010010011010 0110101111 010111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,058 |
Words | 208 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 9, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 195 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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