This is an analysis of the poem Conscience that begins with:
QUHEN halie Kirk first flurist in Ȝouthheid,
Prelatis wer chosin of all perfectioun;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXaX XXabbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011110010 10011001100 1101010101 110101100 1101110100 1111011111 10010110111 1110011101 1101010111 10011111011 10110010111 110110101 111111111 011101111111 11111010110 111110101 10011010011 1011111111 11111010 1100100101 11010010101 111100101 1101100101 11111100101 1111010011 0101011101 11111110100 1110010011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, for are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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