This is an analysis of the poem What The Auld Fowk Are Thinkin that begins with:
The bairns i' their beds, worn oot wi' nae wark,
Are sleepin, nor ever an eelid winkin;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab XXab XXXb cXcb dXdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111111111 11011011010 01111111101 101111011110 11111001011 10110110110 01111101101 1011011011110 101111101101 1010111100110 11011011011 110011011110 10110100111 010111111010 101111011001 10011011110 10111101001 111011011010 111101111 0111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; fowk is repeated.
The author used the same word whan at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word thinkin at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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