This is an analysis of the poem 89. The Ordination that begins with:
KILMARNOCK wabsters, fidge an' claw,
An' pour your creeshie nations;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXbXXc dXdededec XXfeXeXec gXgegXXec ghghghgXc didididic jhjXXXXXc XXXXXXXhc fefefefec kbkXXXkbc Xibilibic XbdbdbdXc lebebeXec Xhhhhhhhhc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 111110 11110111 0101010 10011111 1111110 11010001 1101100 1101 11011111 10110101 110011101 11011100 011001101 1101010 11010101 1101010 1101 11111101 1111010 11011111 111011 01011101 1101110 11000001 11000110 1101 11010101 1101110 110111101 1110010 11001101001 1110010 110010101 1101010 11111 11010101 1111110 11000101 1111010 111100101 1101010 01011101 1001010 1011 11011111 1111110 11111101 01110010 11011101 1111010 11110111 11011110 1101 11110111 0101110 11110101 110101 110111001 1100101 11011101 111111 1101 11000111 110110 11011110 11000101 11010110 1110110 11010011 11011011 1101 110010111 1111110 11010101 1111110 11010111 1101010 100100101 1101010 1101 11110101 1101111 1100111 1101010 111100101 0100010 11010101 1101010 1101 11110001 1101010 11011111 1101010 11000101 1111010 11010111 0101010 0101 11010010 0101010 11110101 0101010 11110111 1101010 1111101 1101100 1101 11010101 1101010 10000110 1111110 10010101 1100110 11010101 1101010 11111 11010100 1110010 010111101 0011010 01111111 1100010 11011101 1101010 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 139
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', and, we'll are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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