This is an analysis of the poem The Heir Of Lynne that begins with:
Of all the lords in faire Scotland
A song I will begin:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XbXb cdef bfaf afXd XdBX bXcd XXbb Xfad BFbf adaX XXff XXBF afbd XXaX aGGX XXbX bcgX adaa Xbeb XAAb bfhX aXXf bfbX cdef bfXX Xdaa XXBX XfbX XFFfhX bfbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010110 011001 0101101 110100101 0101100111 111010101 1010111 001111101 01011111 0100111110 111011001 100101111 10111101 1101111 11111111 01001011 11111 1110101 111001111 011110110 111010101 010100110 11010101 0101101 1011010101 11111100 11011111 1010011110 01110001 0111011 01010011 1110101 11100101001 1001011 1111101011 10101110 110110101 11011101 11110101 11010111 11111111 11111110 11111111 1010001111 111101000 1110001 110111111 11110111 101111110 01110101 110110101 11011101 111111111 11010101 111110101 111111100 111111111 11111111 10011011 10111100 100101111 11001001 11001001 10101101 111110101 1110101 111110101 111110110 11011101 0101111 01100101 1111101 10100101 01110110 11110101 11010111 11010111 110011101 11111001 1101111 11110101 1110111011 1110111011 01110101 11100101 011011111 111111111 1111100100 11111111 11111110 1100010 111110101 11111101 1011011 110010111 110100011 11011111 110011110 111011101 10010111 1111101 11011101 10100110101 110011001 11101011 01111110 11100101 110100111 1110111001 01010011 11010101 1010110101 11011110101 1011101 1011101001 11111110110 11111010 1011011 1011011 1101011 111100110 100111010 11100101 10011111 1110111 01111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 31
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 126
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, some, i, him, he, of, full, sate, thou, thee, forty are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, his, and, 'now, he, forty are repeated.
The author used the same word 'for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bill, head, lynne, ', me are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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