This is an analysis of the poem Scotch Rhapsody that begins with:
Do not take a bath in Jordan, Gordon,
On the holy Sabbath, on the peaceful day! '...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbaabbcdXe EEfc XXdddddXecacaa ggXgfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,14,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101010 101010101011 10101010111 1001010101 1001001111 100110111 1010110111 10101010001 1110101 11011101 1110111100 11101 1101 1101 1 1 10001110 11010111 101101010 011001010 11110101 11011111 001101101 110010110111011 101001001 1100111 11110101010 10101010101 1110101010010 11010101010 1001 1001 100 1 1 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; on, and, like are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words boring, would, that are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines room, place are repeated).
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