This is an analysis of the poem Johnnie Armstrang that begins with:

Some speak of lords, some speak of lairds,
And sic like men of high degree;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabX cXXX dXbX dXbX XdeX baXa XaXa BAFX BAea eghX BAFX BAea hghX BAFX BaeX BAFX BadX BAFX eafX dghg hXia jXja Xaia XadX kiki hiXd XXXa iaga cXid daga khgX XXXa gXiX
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 11110101 001001101 1111010 011101010 0011110 1111001010 01110110 010110001 1001010 11111101 1111010 110111101 1100011 11011101 11111100 111110101 11110101 0101011110 11111110 11010101 01011101 011101001 11011011111 11111101 11110111 111001010 10010111011 10011101 10111110 110100101 11110101 11111111 101011101 11110111 011001101 11111111 11110101 111011001 11011111 10011101 10111110 110100101 11110101 11111111 101011101 11110101 11110101 11110101 11111101 11100111 11110101 10011101 10111110 110100101 11110101 11111111 10111101 11110101 11111111 10011101 10111110 110100101 11110101 11111111 10111101 101111101 11110101 10011101 10111110 110100101 11110101 11111111 10011110 11110011 11110110 101110110 11010101 1101111111 11110101 11111111 11110011 110011111 1101100011 111100111 1000011 111110101 110111111 1111011111 10111001 111100101 01011111 110111110 11011110 11110101 11011101 1101001010 010100101 10000110 11001001 111101101 11111101 111110111 101010101 111111010 111101011 11000110 11011110 11111101 11011100 011010101 01001111 100110110 11110100 111110101 1111101111 111011011 11111101 11110101 110101100 100110101 11111101 111111001 11111110 11011100 1101010 11011111 01110111 01111101 11101011 110110101 10011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 33
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 132
  • 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; of, some, and, their, he, king, my, i, thou are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word lang is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same words ', he at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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