This is an analysis of the poem The Bloody Sun that begins with:
“O WHERE have ye been the morn sae late,
My merry son, come tell me hither?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaXaX CBCXcX DBDXdX EBEXeX EBEXeX FBFXffX FBFXffX CBCXccX FBFXffX ABAXaaX XBXXXX DBDXdX GBGXXX EBEXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,7,7,7,7,7,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100111 110111110 111100111 111111100 1010110101 1110 11011111101 110111110 11011111101 111111100 11011010101 1110 10111101 110111110 10111101 111111100 0101011010101 1110 11111101 110111110 11111101 111111100 11111101010101 1110 110110111 110111110 110110111 111111100 010100101 1110 110111101 110111110 110111101 111111100 010110101 111011101 1110 110111101 110111110 110111101 111111100 010110101 111011101 1110 1101111101 110111110 1101111101 111111100 010110111 1111111101 1110 110111111 110111110 110111111 111111100 01011101001 1010111111 1110 11011110101 110111110 11011110101 111111100 110010101 1111101001 1110 110111110 110111110 110111110 111111100 10111001010 1110 1101110110 110111110 1101110110 111111100 1101011001 1110 11100011 110111110 11100011 111111100 1101011101 1110 1110011 110111110 1110011 111111100 1111010111 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 89
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, dear, mither, come are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words and, when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word mither at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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