This is an analysis of the poem The Twa Corbies that begins with:
AS I was walking all alane
I heard twa corbies making a mane: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX Xbcc XXbb aXcc aXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 111101001 011001001 11111101 10101111 11110111 110011111 1010110101 11000101 01010111 0101101001 11111101 1110111 1111010110 11110101 11111011 10011111 11111101 100111111 01111100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.
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