This is an analysis of the poem Edom O' Gordon that begins with:

IT fell about the Martinmas,
   When the wind blew shrill and cauld, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX bcdX Xaaa XcaX eXaf XaAa ghAh eXdc ccdX aceX icaX acdX aajX Xcgc aiXX acXc ajXX XcaX achX XceX iXhX hXiX XXiX XaXX aghg XhhX ifaX jeaX bXfX ecbc XXAc AXXX agXg 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010100 1011111 110110001 111001 11011110 110111 101001101 111110 010110101 101111 111100101 1100101 111111011 1111111 10110101 110111 1100100101 111101 0101010110 1101111 111101010 110101 110110101 110101 11110101 110101 110110101 1100101 0101100101 111111 01010110 111101 11011101 111101 011110111 1101111 110111110 1101101 110011111 101111 11111101 111101 11111001 111101 110111110 1111011 10111111 111111 11110111 111111 1111111010 1110100 11010101 111101 11110101 110101 11000101110 111111 11011101 1110010 11111111 111111 11110111 100101 110111111 1111110 11110111 1110010 11111101 111111 110101101 110111 11100101 110101 11011101 1010101 11111111 111111 11110101 110111 11100101 111111 11100111 111101 11000111 110101 11011101 110101 11010101 110001 11110101 100111 11011101 110111 111101110 110110 11011101 110111 11111101 1101101 11111011 111111 110101101 101101 11011101 1110100 10101110110 1101010 110101010 110101 11110101 111011 01010101 111010 0110101001 110101 101100111 111101 110101001 111111 01110110 110111 11111101 111111 11111101 111111 111110101 111011 11111111 110111 11011111 1101101 110010101 111111 111010111 1110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 34
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 136
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; to, see, i, doun, winna, your, ye, my, her, as, he, and 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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