This is an analysis of the poem Sir Patrick Spence that begins with:
The king sits in Dumferling toune,
Drinking the blude-reid wine:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX XXbX bcdc cece XeXf XXXX aXbX XXXX fcdc cgXg XXdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101001 100111 101011110 01010100 1111101 110111 1010100110 1101010 011100110 110101 11001101 110101 01111101 011101 01111101 011001 101001101 011101 011101101 0101011 1011111011 11110100 101111101 111011 1011011011 1011011 111111110 11010100 11110111 011111 11110111 111110 11111101 1110011 111111101 110001 11110101 1111011 1011111 1111111 11110100 01101 11111101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; this, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, to are repeated.
The author used the same words the, o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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