This is an analysis of the poem Johnny Armstrong (Original) that begins with:
Sum speiks of lords, sum speiks of lairds,
And siclyke men of hie degrie;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XbXX cbaX cbaX XcdX aeXe XeXe AEXX AeXe XfgX AeXX Aede gXXX AEXX AedX AEXX AecX aEXX deXb cXgX gXhX XXXe XeXe XecX Xhih ghXc bXXe heXe XXXX ceXe igfX XXXe XXXh
- 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,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 1101011 001001101 1011010 0111001010 00111100 1111001010 011101100 010110001 10010100 101111101 11110100 110111101 11000110 101011101 111011100 111110101 1111011 0101011110 11111110 11010101 01011101 0111001001 1111011111 11111101 11110111 111001010 1010111011 10011101 10111110 110100101 11110101 11111111 1010110101 11110111 01100101 11111111 11110101 0111101 11011111 10011101 11111110 110100101 11110101 11111111 101011101 11110101 11110101 11110101 11111101 1110111 11110101 10011101 10111110 110100101 11110101 11111111 10111101 11110101 11011111 10011101 10111110 110100101 11110101 11111111 10111101 110111101 11110101 01011101 10111110 110100101 11110101 11111111 10011110 111100111 111101100 101110110 11010101 1101111111 11110101 11111111 11110011 11011111 11110011 111101011 1000011 111110101 110111111 111111111 111011001 11110101 01011111 11011111 11011110 110110101 11011101 110100101 100010101 10000110 11001001 111101101 11111101 111110111 101010101 111111010 111101011 11000110 11011110 111111101 11011100 0111010101 01001111 101110110 11110100 111110101 11111101111 110111011 11111101 11110101 110101100 10110101 11111101 111111011 11111110 11011100 1101010 110111011 01110111 01111101 11101011 110110101 10011101
- Amount of stanzas: 33
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 132
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, and, their, he, king, my, i, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word lang is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words gilnockiel', he, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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