This is an analysis of the poem Cha Till Maccruimein:(Departure of the 4th Camerons) that begins with:
The pipes in the streets were playing bravely,
The marching lads went by... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXcXX bdbdbcXX beXebcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100101010 010111 010111010 111101 1111001010 101101 111111100 1001110 11001001110 0101101 1101101010 00100111 1111001010 111001 0101101110 1001110 1101001010 011111 0111001010 1101001 10100110010 010111 11001110110 1001110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; farewell, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase maccrimmon connects the lines.
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