This is an analysis of the poem Auld Maitland that begins with:
There lived a king in southern land,
King Edward hight his name;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX XcXb dEfe aecX eXcX cccc Xaga aXXh Xcic aXaX ieiX ffXf Xjcj ecXX aefe XaaX iece ciei aeke cejX iehe heaX cXXe gcdX ceae XcjX bEXe gXXe aXaX laja laeX feke mahX XXkX cece XeXe geie bXaX aenX hEaX henX ieXe ieae hXae heae haaX aXog XXXX gcXc daaX aXog
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110101 10001101 110001 11010111 110111 11001111 110101 11110101 1101101 11011010 110101 11110110 111100 001101011 110101 11111111 11010 11111111 011111 11011101 111111 11101101 010101 11110110 011101 11010110 010101 11010101 111111 110011100 101101 111110100 111111 011100101 110101 110101101 11101001 01111101 1101100 11011111 111111 11011111 111011 11110001 0100101 111100010 111110 010101101 100111 11000110 010111 10111111 101101 11111111 010101 10111100 100101 11010111 111101 10111100 111101 11110110 0100111 111100101 111101 101101011 111001 01111011 111101 10110111 101101 01000101 111111 01011101 110011 11010111 101100 10111101 111100 11110111 111101 111101101 010101 11010101 110101 11111110 010101 11111111 110110 11010111 010101 1111011 11010101 11110101 110111 11101100 111111 111010110 110101 11011110 111101 11001111 110101 11010101 110111 11010110 111101 11010101 1111 11010101 110111 11111011 111101 11111101 111100 01011001 110101 10100111 110101 11010001 110111 11110101 111101 010101001 010101 11100111 010101 11100111 110111 11110101 010110 100110101 111101 11111011 1011111 11111110 101101 11000110 010111 11110111 011101 11111001 010111 01100101 110101 11100101 110101 10110111 100101 10011110 1111110 11100101 01101 11111111 100111 11011101 1101101 11111111 110101 01111101 110101 11111101 111111 11111101 110101 00111101 110101 11110101 1100100 11110110 110111 10110111 111101 11111101 110110 10100101 110101 10011001 111101 10010101 11000111 110010101 110101 110101001 011101 10110010 110101 11111101 11110 10011111 111111 11010101 110101 11010101 1010111 11111111 110101 11010011 110111 110101001 011101 10110010 1101001 11111101 101110 11011111 111101 01111101 1111 11110011 110111 11111111 110101 10110110 111101 01011101 110111 11111111 111101 11101101 110111 11010111 110111 11111111 111101 10011001 010110 01111101 110111 11010101 111101 11010111 110111 11010111 110101 11011011 110111 11110110 111101 11111101 111101 11011111 1111001 110101110 010101 11011101 1101110 11111101 1111 11110011 010101 11111101 110101 11110101 011111 11011101 111100 11011111 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 65
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 260
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they, house, my, he, ', we, his, him, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, he, 'now are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words ', lay at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase he connects the lines.
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- summary of Auld Maitland;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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