This is an analysis of the poem Statue Of Robert Burns that begins with:

To a town in Southern land
Light of purse I come and lone;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ebebfdfd daaadddd cdcdgdgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010101 1011111 1110111 1010001 1111111 1110101 1111101 1010101 1010001 1010101 0010111 1010101 1000101 1011101 1010101 0010101 1010001 1010001 1111101 1111101 10101001 1011101 1011111 1011101 1011101 1011111 1010111 1110101 1111101 0110101 1010111 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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; and, i, of are repeated.

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

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