This is an analysis of the poem Should Auld Acquaintance . . . ? that begins with:
Fancy you knowin' old Bill Barley - I haven't seen 'im since I don't know when;
Him an' me made a voyage or two together - nine years ago, was it,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011011101101111111 11110101101010011011 100101001011111000111 011010001010110100111 111111010011 1110011011111111 111110101110101 10101111111100111 11111111101011 11111011101110111 11011111001101 101111010110011001 1011011101111111111 1111101010100111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 989
- Average number of words per stanza: 200
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 70 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, bill are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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