This is an analysis of the poem Fool's Luck that begins with:
The Allans o' Airlie they set muckle store
On ancestry, acres, and siller,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababb Xcdcc XbXbb dXdee fbfbb XXgX hchc cbcb fifX XXXXj kikX lblb mimi dhdh Xjdj gXXX mjmX mhmh XjXjj nono aXaX cjcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011011101 110010110 11001000101 111010010 010110 11011111101 1011010110 01111011001 010010110 110010 11011111111 101110010 111110101001 011010110 010110 10111111111 110110110 11011111001 101111110 110111110 101101001111 010111010 11001011011 101110010 101110010 10110101101 1110110110 11100101101 11110110 11110111111 111011110 11110111111 010111010 101011101101 111110010 11101011001 010111010 11111001101 111110010 11001111011 110111000 111111110111 111111110 11101101110 111010110 010110 11111101011 1111010110 11111101101 110010110 11101101111 111011010 11111110101 011110010 11001111011 110011110 111001011111 111111110 10111111111 100110101 11110111101 110111011 11001101110 011010010 00101001011 11010110 11001101011 010100110 11110111111 101111110 11101101101 111111010 11101001001 101010110 11011111101 011010111 11101111011 111111111 11011101101 011111010 11111001010 111110110 111110110 11011001011 110110111 10111111111 111110111 10101101101 101111111 01011101011 101101111 10101011101 01110110 01111001001 101010110
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 95
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; what, more, we, to, o', and, ye, 'to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, what, 'to are repeated.
The author used the same word 'we're 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 miller, frugal, siller, to, her, dearly 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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