This is an analysis of the poem The Battle Of Killie-Crankie that begins with:
Clavers and his Highlandmen
Came down upo' the raw, man,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabAcadA eaXaXafa bafaXaXa bafaaaea XaXaaaca XadaXaea aaXaXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010100 1110011 110111001 0101011 01110011 1110111 110010101 0101011 101101101101 1110011 01011101 1101111 11111101 1011111 110101011 0101011 11011101 1110011 01011101 11010011 011111110 1111011 11010101 1101011 01011100 1101011 11011101 1001111 01011111 1111111 111111001 1101101 11001011 1101011 0111111 1101011 01011011 1010011 11010101 1111101 11011101 1111111 11011101 1111011 010001101 1101111 110111001 0111101 11111111 1111011 110111011 0111101 11111101 1111011 101111101 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; o'er, their, oh' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word wi is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word then at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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