This is an analysis of the poem The Battle Of Harlaw--Evergreen Version that begins with:
Frae Dunidier as I cam throuch,
Doun by the hill of Banochie,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXbXX aXcddXXX eaeaaXaX fXfXXgXg aXXhXXXX cgcgXiXi XgXXgjXX ckckkXkX clcllXlX cXXmmXmX caXXaXaX jnXXngXX neneebeX dXXooXom gfXffXfX gXgXeXXX gXgXcbXX jXjXXXXX apaXXlpl keXeecec aXXXXXXX aXXbbXXc cgXgXcjc XchXXgXg aeaeXgeg jdlXXcXc XXXeXldl pfXffXfX XXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001111 1101010 1001010 11101111 01110010 110110101 1010011 01011010 11010101 1100010010 11111111 110010110 110101110 11011111 111111010 11000100 11110101 01000111 11011111 10010111 000101001 110011010 111001011 11011011 110001001 10010111 10010011 01011111 110100111 110100001 11011111 11110101 1101010 01101101 11011000 10110101 11010001 11110111 10100101 11010101 1101001 11011101 11110011 01111101 11011101 10111001 10010100 11011101 100110010 11110101 01010111 11111111 11111101 10010111 11011010 101010101 1101101 11100111 11010001 01010111 11100111 11011110 11111101 01011001 11010101 11011101 11010101 11001011 11011101 01010110 01110111 10010111 1111101 01011010 1100110 11111101 11110101 11011111 110010001 1101011 01100111 11111101 11111111 1101110 11110111 11011101 11101111 011010100 01001101 01110101 01010101 101100100 11010111 10110101 01110111 00110100 110101001 10010101 100100101 01010001 11101101 11110111 01110101 11000010 01011100 01010100 0100011 01110101 01010111 1111010 11111001 11110101 11010110 01010101 01010100 01110111 10010101 01001100 01010101 11001101 10010111 0011110 11000101 0101010 100100111 111101010 1001010 010100010 11010101 1101001 01001101 01110111 10011111 01111101 1110010 11010110 01010101 01011001 11010101 11000111 11110111 11011101 110111001 00110101 0101011 01010101 11110111 010110101 111101010 10111101 110101001 10010101 11011111 11111001 010101101 10010011 11000111 01010101 11110101 11110101 11011111 01011101 11101110 11111101 11011101 11010111 010101111 1111111 00110101 01110111 11100101 10000111 1011011 1111101 00010010 00011101 11010101 11111101 11011101 01110101 1111011010 1111101 1110011 11110101 10000111 10001101 01110101 110001001 11111011 10110101 10000110 11011111 11010111 00011101 1101011 00100111 01100100 0101111 11011001 1110011 00111001 01011100 010100010 10011110 1111000 11111001 1111010 11101101 11100101 1100011 100100111 010110011 0101010 11010111 110111010 11011001 11100010 01100101 10011101 11110111 01111101 11011100 01011101 11001000 11010100 11000101 11110100 11010100 01011111 01010101 11010111 10011111 11111101 11010101 01011111 1101111 11011111 11010100 100111011 11111101 001111010 11110101 110111010 01110101 10010111 110111 110011111 01100010
- Amount of stanzas: 31
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 248
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, and, be, with, his, to, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, the, with are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words aberdene, slain at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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