This is an analysis of the poem The Rock Of The Betrayed that begins with:
I.
IT was a Highland chieftain's son ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdcX edbXX dcfcX gahaa dijia khihX ccacX XgagX dblbk agaga cbdbX mhXhX hbabX eacaX didXX ldiXX ckhkX hdcdX bjdjX hcbXX XigiX hihiX mgmgX bgbgX gakaX kgbXX hbiXX leiXX gdlXX blglX eXXgX cgagX fbebX adkdX lakaX eXiiX gebeX jcjcX bdgdX lijiX hbgbX XdmXX h
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01010101 110001 1111100101 1011111 1 01010111 0010101 101110101 0101010 1 01010111 111111 100110101 000101 1 11010101 11110111 111000101 110101 1 111000101 111111 11110111 010101 1 111000101 1011101 101011111 110011 1 111110111 0011101 111010101 110101 1 10010101 110101 11110101 110111 1 111010111 0101101 01011101 110111 1 10010101 0100111 11010101 110001 1 01010101 0111010 11010111 0101010 1 11110101 10101010 01110101 10111010 1 11010101 1101011 11010101 0010101 1 11010101 011111 111010101 010100 1 11010101 1111101 101010101 010101 1 110100101 1111111 101011111 010101 1 11010101 0011101 1110100111 110001 1 11011101 010101 111010101 1010101 1 11110101 011111 11010111 111101 1 11110111 010101 01001101 1110111 1 11010001 010111 11010111 110001 1 11000101 111001 101110111 010111 1 11011101 0100101 01110101 111111 1 11001101 111111 11001111 0010111 1 11001111 010101 10110011 111111 1 11110011 111011 11111011 110111 1 01110101 111111 11000101 1111100 1 01110101 1011101 11000101 1101010 1 11110101 110111 111011101 111111 1 101110101 111101 101011101 010101 1 110100101 1010101 001110011 010101 1 11111101 010101 101011111 10010101 1 01110111 110101 110100101 1011111 1 101111101 0011101 101110101 1011101 1 111110101 011111 101101100 110101 1 11110101 111111 010100101 1011101 1 10011101 1101011 1010100101 010101 1 11010111 0011111 11010111 1011101 1 01010110 1010101 01011101 110111 1 11011111 1010111 10110011 1111111 1 11010101 010001 11010101 010001 1 01010101 0110101 11010101 110110 1 11011101 111101 10011101 0011101 1 11110111 111111 010111110 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 45
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 220
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, his, hath are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whose, and are repeated.
The author used the same words his, he, the, till at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Rock Of The Betrayed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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