This is an analysis of the poem The Old Scotish Cavalier that begins with:
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Come listen to another song,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XabacabadC X eabafagahC X bhfhehXXdC X gbcbebiXdC a bfbfjfhfhC a abibjbebdC X fiaibifXdC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,1,10,1,10,1,10,1,10,1,10,1,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11000101 111111 1100110 1010011 00010101 011111 10010111 1101111 101110100 100101 1 11010001 1101001 101010101 100101 11010111 110101 101011111 111101 001110101 100101 1 01010101 110101 01010100 110101 11011101 010011 1111001 00100010 101110100 100101 1 11010101 110101 11010111 010101 11111101 1101001 11000101 110110 101110100 100101 1 11011101 011101 110100111 1010111 11110101 1010001 11010101 010101 001010101 100101 1 11011101 1010101 11011101 110101 11000101 011111 01111001 110101 100110100 100101 1 11011101 011111 01011101 110101 0111110 0010101 111111010 0100110 001110100 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; and, of, his are repeated.
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