This is an analysis of the poem Scotland 1941 that begins with:

We were a tribe, a family, a people.
Wallace and Bruce guard now a painted field,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXcdceXe bebefXgfcfffhf gededifhjaajiii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,14,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10010100010 1011110101 11110100110 0101010101 0101101101 0101110101 0111010101 1111011101 1101010001 1001000101 1001010101 1011010101 10010111001 11010110010 01010111001 11110111010 1011010101 0101010100 1101011101 1101001101 1111111100 1011010111 1111010011 011110111 10100011101 1111010101 1111110101 11101101010 110100011010 1111100110 110000111010 1111011101 1011010011 01001000101 1110110111 100110000101 10111111011 1011010001 11010010101 1111111101 110100100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 585
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, our, such, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, such are repeated.

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  • summary of Scotland 1941;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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