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

[The king goes to Inverurie and falls ill]
Now leve we intill the Forest ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbcXdXccbXeeXXXXfXXdggXXXfcbXXeXcXXhbbXaffXXXXXhiiXXjjccXXXXaa X XXXXXjcXicXXXXXXXXcccccXXXXkXXccXcXXddeXlXXXcccX X XXddXXjjiXXXjjXkXXeXlXXXXjjjXXXXXXXdXXXXeeXXXijjcXXcfXXbccbX X ccbXXjXcjXXcXaXc X XXdXffXkXajjkXXXccXjXXiXXXXXXmdXX a XkkXjXhkkjXXnXkXXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,62,1,48,1,60,1,16,1,33,1,21,1,54,1,30,1,46,1,49,1,35,1,22,1,38,1,48,1,74,1,40,1,54,1,32,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 36
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 768
  • Average number of words per stanza: 149
  • Amount of lines: 780
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; off, thai, that, his, thar, 105, men, and, war, to, it, he, or, schyr, thaim, sum, in, thou are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words schyr, and, the, that, into, thar, in 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.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines 105, thar are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases then, he connect the lines.

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