This is an analysis of the poem Hobbie Noble that begins with:
Foul fa' the breast first treason bred in!
That Liddesdale may safely say:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xbbb adeX ebfX XdbX XXXb gXeb hbXX hXhh biei ahXh jXcX jaXa ebXX jXcb aXXX kbaX lbeb aala gbXX jXab gbXX jhfa hhah dXXb dbhb ehbX achX amem ejej hXfX Xafa XbgX XkfX dXfX
- 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,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110111010 11001101 100111111 11101101 10110111 11000101 111111111 11100101 11111101 1100101 10011011 11010100 11010111 100011 111101101 0101010 111100101 11011101011 111110101 111101111 11010101 10111111 11111011011 111101110 11101101 11101111 11111101 110111001 11010101 11110100 0110110101 01011111 1110100101 01101111 111110101 11001001001 11111111 11111101 011010111 1111111011 101110111 010111001 110011101 11010001 11011111 111101111 11110101 01011101 110010111 1011111001 11100100 111101101 110100110 01001111 11111101 01000101 11010011 111100111 11111111 11101101 1101011 111110101 11001110 11011111 11110101 11001111 110101001 11111111 110101101 001001111 11011111 11011101 01110111 1111101101 01011100111 00100110111 11111101 111110111 10110010 11110101 1110101 110010111 1001110111 101110111 11011101 11011101 10111010 11110101 1110111001 11011101 11111101 011101111 111110101 110110101 00101001 110110001 11111110 101101111 11111111 1101111101 111111111 11101101 1001111011 11011111 1110110101 01111101 11001010011 101111010 1111011111 10111011 111101001 1010001010 1111111111 111101010 1111001101 111100010 111101101 11010111 11110101 11101111 101111011 101011111 11101111 1110100110 11110111 1011111011 1101101111 11011111 11111100 111011111 11011101 1101010 11111100 1011101 1111101 11111111 1111001110 0111110101 01101101 111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 35
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 140
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, me, he, they, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, they are repeated.
The author used the same words then, 'gar, they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' 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 they connects the lines.
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- summary of Hobbie Noble;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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