This is an analysis of the poem Scotland's Scaith, Or, The History O' Will And Jean. Owre True A Tale that begins with:

Wha was ance like Willie Gairlace,
Wha in neeboring town or farm? ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XABA Xcdc XeXe fCFc ghgh fdfd XiXi jkje gjgj lhXh mkmk fgfg elml mcmc mXmk fkfk XlXl XkXk jXXc Xlel XlXl gkXk nkok bjXj gXgX cjfj gjgX mkXX mXXi kdkX XXXX cefe XjXj X XlXl kpXp kjkj jjjj iciX blbl XaXX kXkk XdgX kXkX oqnq hchX jXjX Xqeq ieXe gqXq Xblb XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111010 10100111 10110011 1011001 1101111 1011101 11111010 1110111 10111110 1011110 10111110 1110111 11111010 1110101 10111110 1110111 101111010 101101 111001010 1010101 11101010 1111101 10111110 1011111 11110110 1010101 111011110 1010101 11101110 1011101 10101110 10101001 11011110 1000101 100001010 1110101 11111110 1110111 11111010 1110101 11011110 1101011 10111110 1010101 01111010 1011111 01101010 1101111 10111011 1111101 11011110 1111111 101010110 1010101 11101010 11011111 10111010 10101010 10101010 1011101 11111110 1011110 11101110 1010101 01111110 1011111 11111110 11111101 11101110 1010101 011101110 1110111 10111010 0110101 11111010 10001101 0011101 10010101 10111011 1110111 10111110 1011101 11111010 1011101 10101110 1010101 11101110 1110101 101010011 10101001 10111010 0111101 10101110 10011001 10111010 1010111 10111110 1101101 11111010 1001111 11111011 1111101 11101010 1110101 100101110 0111101 111010110 11111110 11011010 1110100 11101110 1100111 11111010 10110111 1111101 1010111 010011010 1101111 11011010 1110101 10111100 1110101 11011110 10011101 10111011 1111101 10111110 0111111 11111010 0110111 11111010 1111101 11 11101100 1111101 10111110 1110101 11111010 10011111 01101010 1111101 11111010 1010101 10010010 1110101 11111010 1010101 11111010 1011101 10111111 1111101 11101111 1110100 10101011 1110101 101111011 10010111 110101100 11110111 111001100 10111011 10101010 01111110 11111010 01111110 10101110 10010111 01111110 1110110 11111010 1110110 10101010 1010101 11101010 1110101 10111011 1111111 11111011 1011111 11110111 10101111 11111010 1111111 11111110 1111110 1001111 1110101 11101111 0110111 11101010 1011101 11111110 10101001 11101010 1010101 101111100 10101001 011111100 1011101 10101110 1110101 11111010 1011110 11111010 11011101 10111010 1110101 10101100 1011111 11110010 10001111 11101010 1111111 11111110 11111010 11001110 11111010 10101010 11111010 11101110 10111010 11101010 1111111 11101111 1111111 111010010 1111101 11101100 10111110 1111011 0011101 11101110 0011111 101010010 1010101 10101010 101011011 1101110100 101111001 10111000 1010101 11111010 10100111 10110011 1011001 11111010 1110101 10111110 1110111 10111110 1110101 1001010110 1001111 00111010 1111101 10101010 1111101 11111110 1011101 10111010 1010101 11001011 1011101 110100010 1110101 1101110100 101111001 10111000 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 68
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 269
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; in, or, and, her, whan, aye, e'er, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words wha, ilka, near, weel, no are repeated.

    The author used the same words wha, saw, jean at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase news connects the lines.

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