This is an analysis of the poem 'Bobbie' For Brotherhood that begins with:
Lang syne I penned a mickle rhyme
That muckle grief brocht to my soul;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdee cfcffcfcfX XeceXebeXg heheagaXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 11011011 11011101 11010011 111101101 11010101 11111111 11111111 11011111 11011101 10011101 11011011 01011011 01010101 1111101 10111111 11010111 10010101 11011101 11011100 011101110 010110001 11010111 11010001 01010101 11111101 11111101 11110111 11110100 010101011 11110111 110110101 11010101 11110111 11110101 11010100 01110101 11100000 01010101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, tae are repeated.
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