This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Edinburgh Academician that begins with:
If ony here has got an ear,
He'd better tak’ a haud o’ me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb bbXb caXb daXb cXXd Xdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 11010111 11011101 01110100 110100 110100 01011011 11010100 11111111 11110111 11010101 11110100 11111111 11010101 11010101 11010100 11011101 11001000 11010110 11110100 11011111 01010101 11111101 01010100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; old, academy, some are repeated.
The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines academy is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words academy, academies at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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