This is an analysis of the poem The Hospitable Caledonian And The Thankless Viper that begins with:
A Caledonian piper
Who was walking on the wold... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccX ababXdXd eccXecXcXc fgfghbhb aiaibbdjbj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,10,8,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010010 1110101 10101010 1010101 10100010 1100101 11111010 1011101 10101010 1010101 11101010 1010001 10101111 1010101 10101010 1010101 01101010 1110101 101 10 010 0010001 01101010 1111101 10101100 1110011 11101011 0010101 10101011 1110111 10101110 1110101 10101000 1011111 10100010 0010101 11101010 0110101 11100110 1 0 1101 10111110 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he is repeated.
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