This is an analysis of the poem Gil Morrice. A Scottish Ballad that begins with:

Gil Morrice was an erles son,
His name it waxed wide:...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdb daXefbgX hicXfXeX XaXXXXbX jeXaXXkX bgbgggXX XjlXXema XXXXbeX egXg jeXa XXkXgdld aXfXkdkX kdfX adgdnd XaXXbXkX XmmbXle XeleXmnm Xhkhkhjh kXfjkXaX bXfdbhah XXXb XXbX bhcXkakX keXaXXXX XakXadaX begabjij XbcXgdjd XXaXebhb XjXj kXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,8,8,8,8,8,7,4,4,8,8,4,6,8,7,8,8,8,8,4,4,8,8,8,8,8,8,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 01011 01110110 111101 10110101 111101 101110101 101111 10101101 110101 111111010 111111 101011111 1111110 11111101 111111 11100110 1011010 11101110 111011 11110101 111010 11110111 111111 11111111 111101 11111001 111111 01011101 111101 11110110 101101 11100111 111111 11000101 111101 11110110 1111010 11011110 100011 11111101 001111 010100101 111101 11010101 111101 11111101 110110 11011101 010111 110110101 110111 110110110 110111 110110101 110111 11011001 110101 111101010 11000111 1010111 111101011 110101 11100111 011001 11010110 111101 11100111 111101 11000101 111101 11110110 1111010 0101111 11101 11111111 1001111 11001110 011001 110011010 111101 11110101 010111 10011110 111001 11111101 111111 110011010 111011 11110110 110111 11010101 111101 11011101 010111 11010110 110101 11100111 111110 11111110 111111 11011100 1111110 11010111 110111 11110110 01110101 111001 01110101 011101 01110101 110101 01110101 011101 01110101 1101001 11010101 110101 01010011 110111 11111110 100101 11010101 110101 11110101 111101 110110110 110111 01010110 010111 11011110 11111 11011111 111111 11110101 110101 111100110 111101 111111001 110101 01010101 1101101 11111101 110101 11100101 111101 01011101 101111 111111001 110001 110111101 111101 11101101 111111 11110110 111111 111110110 1010101 11101101 110111 11110111 100101 111111010 110111 11110111 011101 11110101 110101 110111110 111111 10011110 1111111 11111111 111111 10111110 101111 11111111 111111 110111001 110111 11111111 110101 11110111 010111 11010101 111111 10011111 111111 110101011 110111 11011111 111101 1101101 110101 11111101 111101 11010101 011101 11011001 011101 01111111 010101 11011110 111011 11010101 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 206
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, willie, hir, his, to, ze, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, and, i, his, ze, the 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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