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

[The king in Kyle]
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XXXXbbcXbXXXdXeeaXXfdfXc X XbffXXggfXXgeeffbXXcXXXXXXXXffhhbbieXfffjjXXffXgf X deiXbiXbbbbXXbbbXbXkkXXXXkXXfXXXX j eiggXXlXXXXfhhXX a XXXXbbdXfjffhhXfXXXlXXffffXXXbXmXXXXcc b dXiefXbbbXXhffhhkkfXbbbXXXffgXfXXXfXkkggffXXff X dXXlXfeiXXXbXXXXbXXXXXXXXlXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,24,1,49,1,33,1,16,1,38,1,46,1,64,1,38,1,45,1,36,1,25,2,33,1,39,2,35,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101 01111011 10011000 111101100 111111010 111111111 11111001 11111111 00111100 01111111 111111100 01111101 11001111 01000110 11110100 101011101 1011111 11110011 111001110 110001 110110110 1110010 00101111 11110010 01101001 1001110101100 111010111 1111101 11110111 11110001 11011100 111110100 11101001 11011111 10010001 01000110 10110101 101111111 10111011 01100101 11011001 1111010001 10011011 10011110 111111110 111110111 1110100101 110011101 1101001100 010010100 1110100 111110110 1111111 1010111 11000111 11111001 110101101 10011101 110100101 111001111 11110101 111011101 01111111 11110110 11111101 11111111 111110101 11111101 110111100 1100011100 11110111 111111101 110010111 10011101 11111111 010110100100 1110010 110010101 1101001 101111111 10110111 010110111 11110100 10101111 11101001 111111101 110111111 11011000 10101100 11011101 11111011 11110101 111011110 11011011 110101001 11101101 101010111 101001100 1110011 11010110 11000111 10010111 11010100 1110001 11111011 11110110 111101010 111011100 11010100 00100101110 11011001 11011001 101101111 101101111 11011110 101101111 101111110 1011001 1110011011 11010111 10011011 11000111 11011001 111111111 11111101 11101011 1010001010101101 0110100 101011010 11101101 10110101 1111001 11111101 11100110 110110100 11111111 110001011 1101101 11010101 111111111 11010101 110100100 01100101 011001010 110111010 01110100 11010110 11101110 101100100 110010011 10111110 011111111 11111101 11111100 1010110111 01001110 1010101 10101110 100111111 111110101 1011101 1101100 11000100 1111001 1111010100 011011000101 101101010 11111100 110111101 1101111 1100111011 11010110 10111011 110111011 01111101 111111101 11011101 101101111 11010001 111111011 111001111 11110101 11111101 11111110 11000111 11111110 11101101 01010101 11110101 11011111 111111110 11011110 11011111 11111000 11101111 111111110 010110111 11010101 01011011 111100101 110111001 1110001 11110101 11011011 11111111 10111111 0101101010 110101011 110011110 10010010 111011111 11011010 01001010010 110101010 1011100 11101101 110111110 1111110 11100101 10011101 11111001 11110101 01110101 11010101 0110010011 01111010 101110010 11101110 10010011 11111011 11010100 1110001011 10011011 1101001110 1110001010 111101100 1111011100 111001110 11001110110 111001111 1100111001 1011101111 11111110 11110110 111101010 1111110 1111011100 1010011 11101000 11010100 011111100 101011000 11110111 11101101 110110010 111011111 1101001010 11101110 10100110 1010101100 111111100 111011100 11011111 011111110 11111101 11101111 111101110 11111101 101111111 11111101 11111111 101111101 11100100 10111011 11110111 10110101 1111110010 010110 11010101 11010110 10010101 10010111 101010100 11110010 10110111 10110101 1100111 100111111 10011101 1110110 10011010 11011110 110011001 11111100 11111101 11101010 11111000 11110110 01111101 11101000 11100010 1010101 110000101 111001001 01101101 10011101 11101110 110111110 11111110 101101010 11010101 10101111 110100100 11111001 10111100 010101101 01000110 0101101110 111010101 10101111 110011100 1111111 1110011 111101100 10011111 11111110 01101111 01011101 110101101 11011101 11111101 01110111 110110110 111110101 110010011 01111101 11110011 11011100 111111100 11110101 01111001 10011101 101111001 101101101 11110111 11111100 101111111 11110111 101001101 11101001 110110101 11001100 11100110 111011011 0111010 1111111 11111001 110111110 1110010101 10111101 11111111 1011111 10010100101010 101110010 10101110 1001001 10011111 110111001 111100111 10011100 11110100 11011101 11111001 11101010 11001111 10100110 001010100 10010011 111100111 11011100 11101110 10110001 11011101 11010001111 11101101 11011110 111111101 01110111 111101111 0111111100 110111110 1111110 10101101 11111110 11111100 11111001 11110101 11011111 111110111 01010110101 11010111 11111111 1101001 011010110 1001101010 110111001 10101011 111101 11110101 11110101100 1110101 11110110 01011110 11000101 1111111010 0110011 1111110010 11111100 01101111 110000101 01011011 111000110 0101100111 100111110 111011101 10010100010 10001010 01110101 111110 01011011 01110111 1101001 11001110 11001010 10110111 10010111 101001011 11001100 11001010 110111111 010100111 111111101 10011111 101010011 1110010110 110111001 100101110 11111101 01100111 11000111 11010110 111110001 11100101 010010111 11011011 11111101 110011111 10111111 11110101 101011001 010011 110110101 11110111 11111101 11001100 11110100 11111110 110101100 11111100 1111010 11011111 1101110 111101111 11011000 11011100 010101111 10110001 111011010 01111001 11110101 11101000 11011101 110111111 11101100 11110001 111101011 11101011 111011100 11100100 110101110 101110111 10101000 111011101 111100111 110110111 111110010 111111011 1110101011 11110011 11111001 01001000100010101000 100 11100111 110111110 11110010 010111010 1110110 1010110101 1110111001 01101100 11100101101 10100010110 10111001 11111010 11001110 01011010 1110111011 10100101 11110111 10010101 1111010 1100011111 11110101 101001101 11101111 11111100 111111110 0010011 11110011 11101101 11000101 111010101 1011101110 110111101 101111011 11110110 110001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 668
  • Average number of words per stanza: 128
  • Amount of lines: 538
  • 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; and, that, he, with, thai, sa, his, king, war, sid, in, thar, us, to, thaim, ane, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, the, sa, he 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 ane is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases syne, war, 495 connect the lines.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Brus Book Viii;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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