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

[Criticism of the compact about Stirling Castle]
And quhen this connand thus wes mad ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbaaXXccbXXXcXbXXXdXXXXXXXXXdd e ccXXbbcXXdXbXXfXcXXXXXXbXXXXXXXfXccfXX g hXccXXccXdXcXXXeXXXXXXhhXXXbXXXXcXXXXX i XXXXbbXXXXXXXXhhaaXXbbXXfcXXXXXXXXa X XXXXXXXXXbbjjXXXXXXjjbbXXXXXXXdXcXXXXcXiiffXcXkXXccbbXXXXXXXXXeXXXXbX g cXXcXfdXXXXXXXXjXXXXciXXXjXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,30,1,38,1,38,1,35,1,69,1,60,1,38,1,46,1,26,1,36,1,44,2,44,1,41,1,48,1,40,1,29,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 32
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 754
  • Average number of words per stanza: 144
  • Amount of lines: 679
  • 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; that, his, he, and, of, off, thousand, mony, in, thai, to, we, wes, with, sa, may, thar, thaim, war, for, him are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, off, the, for 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 132, ' are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases we, wer, thai connect the lines.

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