This is an analysis of the poem Aikendrum that begins with:
Ken ye how a Whig can fight, Aikendrum, Aikendrum
Ken ye how a Whig can fight, Aikendrum...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX X XXaXX XXaXX XXXXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111100100 1110111100 11101010011101 10101001100100 0110001100 0110100100100 0110100100 1101011110101 1110011100100 10111001100 1010111100100 1010111100 10110011010111 1110101100100 1010101100 1110101100100 1110101100 11101010010111 111101100100 1111000100 1110101100100 1110101100 1101111011111 1011101100100 110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; aikendrum, fight, can, of, 'round, and, whig are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ken, did, donald's, we are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines aikendrum is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word aikendrum at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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