This is an analysis of the poem Response To Sentiment Of Scottish Poets that begins with:
In replying to this toast, we have no hesitation in saying that Burns stands pre-eminently
in the first rank. His mind was so sensitive to the...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab ccXXcX de ccXdcX Xe XX XX fX dX afaX bX dbX e aaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,2,6,2,2,2,2,2,4,2,3,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010001111101001011111000 00110111100001001011010 100101010100100101 111010110 111011010 11110101 1101 011101110 1101 111011111100100101011100100 00100 110111010 110101010 111111110 1111 1111000010 1101 1101010011110110010010101 01011101000011 11010101 0101111 1010101101011010011001010 10010100100 11101010111 110111001 1101100110011010110001111000 11100100010010011010 11011011011 10110011101 110010110111 11011011011 10001110101110111010 10100100 10101001110011001011 10100 1001010101111 100101010101001100011010101 101110001 1111001 100110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, he, for, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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