This is an analysis of the poem Epistle To Major Logan that begins with:
HAIL, thairm-inspirin', rattlin' Willie!
Tho' fortune's road be rough an' hilly... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabab ccXdcd dXdXXd eeXfef ggghXX iiXdid jjjjjj XXXcXc aaXXaX XXXXXX XeekXk kkXcXf Xahbgb cccXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001010 110101110 0100101010 1101 1101010010 1101 110101110 110110110 111111100 1111 011101110 1101 101110110 11110111 011101010 1011 01110101 0111 11110111 101111101 11110110 0111 01000101 111 11110101 110100001 1100001001 01001 01010110 1110 01010101 11010111 11011111 1111 11011101 1111 111011101 01010111 11110101 11001 110110101 0111 111111010 1110101100 111011010 01010 111111100 11110 111101010 111101010 101111010 1111 111111010 1101 101110010 111111010 010101010 1111 111111010 1100 111111110 1100101110 110111011 1101 110101010 0111 111111010 11111110 100101010 11010 111111010 1110 1011001000 010101010 110101011 1101 110101011 0111 111011110 1111010110 1101111010 1111 110101010 01110010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 97
- 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; your, an', i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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