This is an analysis of the poem Rob Roy that begins with:
Rob Roy from the Highlands cam,
Unto the Lawlan' border,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbcb dbeXdbeX fada XXXXcXeX XXXXfXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,4,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101 1001010 0110011 0101010 1110111 10101010 10101101 0101110 10111111 1010110 10101101 11111010 11011111 1010110 10101101 1111110 111010111 1011010 111000101 10111010 1111101 0101011 11011101 1111011 010010 010011 1111101 0111011 11011001 0100011 10011111 1111011 011011 011111 1110111 11111110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; ye, content, be, bold, as, i'm are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, be, i'm are repeated.
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- summary of Rob Roy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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