This is an analysis of the poem The Gordons At Dargai that begins with:
Gallant Gordons! Evermore on your rugged native shore
Shall your valour honoured be,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacbdb aXXXdbXb eeaXebXb XcdcbbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101011110101 11101000 101111110101001 1010101 101010111100111 1011111 11101111010101 1010101 10101011110101 1110101 10101111010100 10101010 10101011011101 1010001 100101011110101 0011101 10101111110111 10010101 10101011010101 1010111 11111011111111 1110111 111010110101001 1010101 1010101101001010 1111101 11101011011101 1010111 10111011010101 1010111 10101011011101 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word won at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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