This is an analysis of the poem Jock O The Side that begins with:
Now Liddisdale has ridden a raid,
But I wat they had better staid at hame;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXX XbXX XXXX XXXb bcXc XbdX eefe XaXa ghXX beae eeaX XiXX jXXX XgXi ccaX eXXX jbfX hbfb ebaX jXfX fbfb jXXb cXjX XXfX aakX aXbX XeaX ebkX fXXX jXdb XdjX edfd gbjX jbhX XXab bbaX cXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011001 1111110111 110111101 111100101 011111111 1100111001 0111101001 110101111 110111101 1111001100 1111101001 111111100 100111111110 1110101100 111010111 11110111111 11110111011 11110111 11011101 01011111 01111101 11110111 11101110 11011101 11010101 1111101 01011111 10011011 11011001 11001101 1100111101 11001111 111110111 11011101 11011111 11010110 111101110 11111011011 111100111 101011101101 1111101011 101001111 11101101101 011110110111 0110101101 111101101 10100101 11111111 11111111 11110111 10101011110 11110110 0110011111 010111111 11111111 01101110111 110101001 11111101 10010111 11111101 10110111 110111001 11111101 11011111 11011111 11110011 111111011 11011011 111010111 11111111 11111110 1011000101 01011111 101111010 11111111 11111111 000101110 11111011 11111011 11011101 11011111 01111111 1100101 01111111 11010101 01011001 01110111 110111011 11111111 11111110 110111111 11111011 11110101 111011111 01011111 11111101 1111110 111100011 11111011 11110111 011111010 01111101 1101110 011101001 101011101 11110100 1110111 110100101 11010111 111110011 1111010111 111110111 11011101 11110111 0101000100 11111101 01011111 111011011 101111111 11111101 110101101 110101111 110111111 1111101011 11111111 11010111 11011101 111011101 11011011 1101100101 11011111 1111101011 110101101 11111011 1101101110 10111111 11011111 111011100 11111101 0101001101 11111111 111101101 11111101 1111111101 110111111 11111111 1100111100 11011111 1111010110
- Amount of stanzas: 37
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 149
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; news, my, and, his, they, o, laird's, ', sae, a', hae are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they, 'i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines toun is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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