This is an analysis of the poem The Sang O' The Auld Fowk that begins with:
Doon cam the sunbeams, and up gaed the stour,
As we spangt ower the road at ten mile the hoor,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aaXX bbXX XXcc XXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011101 111100111101 01101001101 11011101101 111101011101 11001101011 01111001101 11111001101 1010110101111 01111111001 011011101110 111011111011 11101110111 111110111110 1110101101 111101101111 1101011111 11100111101 1111110110001 11110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, but, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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