This is an analysis of the poem Win' That 'Blaws that begins with:
Win' that blaws the simmer plaid
Ower the hie hill's shoothers laid,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddcXXeffXgccbXXXhhiieehXggXXhhXcXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 10011101 11111110 10111110 10011101 1100100 1010101 1010111 1011111 1010111 1111101 1010101 100111001 1011000 1011111 1011111 1111111 1110101 10010100 1010101 1110101 10110110 0011101 1011001 1111101 1011101 1010101 1011101 1110111 0010101 1110101 1010101 1111111 1111110 1111111 11111001 1110101 10111001 100101100 00101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1207
- Average number of words per stanza: 244
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; wi', an', to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ilka is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ane connects the lines.
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