This is an analysis of the poem For A' That And A' That that begins with:
1 Is there, for honest poverty,
2 That hings his head, an' a' that?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaaaXa cacaaaXa dadaaada aaaaaaea baeaaaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110100 11101111 101011111 11101111 1111111 11101111 101010101 10101111 1111100111 11101111 111111111 10101111 1111111 11101111 1010111011 10111111 11111101 11111111 111010101 11101111 1111111 10101111 101110101 11111111 101110101 10111111 1111011001 11111011 1111111 11100111 101111111 11101111 111111101 11100111 1111110101 11101111 1111111 10101111 111010110 11100111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; that, a', an', for are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines that is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word that at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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