This is an analysis of the poem The Brus Book Ii that begins with:

[Bruce escapes to Lochmaben]
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  • Rhyme scheme: X XaXXbcdXeeffXeXXddXgXXhi j XXggffkkXcXXXXXXkkXXjjdX ah dXXkXXdXXXcXXXihXXddddlXXgXdfXXXlXXgXmddfX i XcgXggdXkXggXXXXXdjjXXXdccdXggXgXhdXnnXXddXXggXXXXXXffXXXXkkfXdXkkooffjjXdmXXiccXmXi pa ggXdkkbXXdXogXXXXfjXXXffXbXXeeXXXXggmXXXmXggkkXXmXccXXddgXccdXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,24,1,24,2,42,1,84,2,72,1,54,1,48,1,122,1,40,2,82,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010100 01110101 11111111 11110110 110010111 111111110 11110111 1110010 01110010 01011001 101010111 10110010 01011110 11001101 11011001 111100100 11111100 111010101 10110011 11010111 111101111 11111100 11110100 111111 111110111 0100101010 111000101 11101110 110101001 01111101 11100110 1101100100 10111101 10110101 001010010 11010101 101001001 10111101 11010111 110101101 11111110 1111011010 1101101001 1111111 11011011 11110010 110111011 1111001001 111110111 11001011 101010110101 100100111 11000111 11101001 1100100 110010111 11000101 1011111010 1101101101 111111000 10010100 00101100 110110101 1110111110 11011111 010001111 11011101 11111001 111101010 11011100 111101100 110011111 11111101 1110111111 10011111 11001110 11100101 0101011 11101011 10111001 11111111 11010111 10101011 1110101011 00101101 11111110 01011101 1110111 111011100 1110100 110011000 01111111 11111101 111011010 10111110101111 11101110 100100101 11110101 11110111 10101011 110010111 11011101 11110100 100101111 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10101111 10011101 01110010 10111001 11100110111 11011110 01011011 101000001 11100101 101110101 01111001 11111000 11011101 110111011 1011111011 11010111 11111100 01100010 101011001 111100111111 1111110 1010101 11110101 11101101 1010111111 11111101 11111101 110011100 111101010 11111110011 11111111 11101110 1101100 111110100 111110111 11100101 10101011 11110101 11010101 11001111101 110101101 10011000 1001100 010010 110111110 11101011011 111101101 11101101 11010101 11111101 1011111011 10110100 11010110 1000101 11010111 1111100111 10111101 10111001 1101111 01110111 1111111011 10110100 11110111 11010111 01011100 110111001 11111001 111110101 110111111 01110110 101111011 11111101 11111111 0101111001 110010111 1100111011 0100111 10011100 11011011 111101110 11111101111 1101111 1111111 010101101 10111100 1111111001 110111011 11110101 11111110 110110100 1111101101 11111001 11110011 10111001 11101101 1010110101 11011011 0111110 1111001 110011001 1100111001 11001100 111001010 11011111 11101100 1111010101 1110010 10011001 11001101 1011110 1111011101 1110010 11111100 11111111 11110111 1011100011 101101011 10110001 10101111 11110101 1111101001 11111100 111111101 110101010 10101011 1100111111 11111111 10011101 11011101 1011101 1110111111 111001001 11101010 10110110 11111101 1111111011 11111011 00111001 111100101 11010101 1111111011 1010001111 10011111 11110111 11111001 1111111101 11110111 111000101 11110110 11100101 1100111011 11101111 11111110 11101111 1010001111 1111000111 01111111 010101 1101110 11110101 1110011111 10111111 11010111 11011101 11100111 11111011111 01100110100 00101001 01110101 10111111 11111011 11110011001 10110100 11111110 1101111 010100111 1110111101 10110110 1100100 010110111 11111001 1010101001011 11101110 11100110 11110111 110011100 1011001001 110010 11111001 11000110 11101101 1111101111 110001101 100111 1111101 11100101 11101001111 11110111 010010110 1101100 01001110 1111111001 11110111 11111110 11000101 11011111 1111111111 01101010111 010010011001111 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  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1066
  • Average number of words per stanza: 206
  • Amount of lines: 606
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, he, thai, and, wald, thou, na, his, to, him, thar, sa, wes, then, war, off, may are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, he, rycht, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase thai connects the lines.

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