This is an analysis of the poem Edom O' Gordon that begins with:
It fell about the Martinmas,
Quhen the wind blew shril and cauld,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XbcX XaaX XbaX dXae XXAX XfAf dXcb Xghg bbcX abdX ibaX abcX jakX Xbgb aiXX abXb akXX XbaX abfX dbdX iXXX XXiX hXiX XaiX agfX XffX XXaX kdaX jXeX dbcb XXAb AXXX XgXg iXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010100 10011111 110110001 111001 110011111 110111 111001101 011110 010111101 101111 111100101 1100101 111111011 11111011 10110101 1101011 1101011001 111101 0101010110 1011111 111101010 110111 110110101 010101 11110101 110101 110110101 010101 0101101101 111111 01010110 111101 1101101011 111111 11000101 1011101 11011101 111101 011110111 0101111 11111110 111101 11011111 101111 11111101 111101 11111001 111101 11111110 0111011 10111111 111111 111101111 110111 1111111010 1110100 11010101 111101 11110101 110101 11000101110 111111 11011101 1110010 11111111 111111 101110111 100101 11111111 1111110 101110111 0110010 111111010 111111 110101101 110111 11101101 1101001 101011101 1010101 11111111 111111 11110101 010111 11101101 111111 11100111 111101 01100111 111101 11010101 110101 11010111 110011 11111101 100111 11011111 110111 11110111 110110 11111101 111111 111111101 0101110 11111011 111111 11101101 101101 11011101 111101 10101110110 1101010 110011010 110111 11110101 111011 01010101 111010 011010101 110101 11111111 111101 11010101 111111 11110110 110111 11111101 111111 11111101 111111 111010001 111111 11111111 111101 11011111 1101101 11011101 1101001 11010101 111111 110010101 111111 1110101101 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 36
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 144
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; see, i, to, winnae, zour, ze, my, hir, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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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