This is an analysis of the poem The Brus Book Xviii that begins with:
Only Berwick remains in English hands; a burgess offers to betray it]
The lordis off the land war fayne ...
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcXdXccXaeeXcXbXXffccggccXXXXcXXXXXff gc hXccggccXXbXXicjiiXkcXcccXiibXccffXXc b XXXiiddXbccbbXXffXclXffXXccmmXXbbXcddaXnXXXcXddXmffXbCcddXlXXXXioXXX o lXXXcXXXXclgXXXccXcccaaXlbb o iXXeXXggpXeebbXfXXeXXXXcXgXXcc do XXgXffcXXbfXXXXXeXgXccXXXcccXXddbbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,38,2,37,1,68,1,27,1,30,2,60,1,66,1,70,1,74,1,60,1,58,2,73,1,49,1,26,1,54,1,36,2,82,1,38,
- 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: 940
- Average number of words per stanza: 179
- Amount of lines: 968
- 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, he, with, sall, thai, sum, him, that, war, for, to, mycht, hyr, till, thar, of, suld, thaim, it, had, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, the, thai, to, bot 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 sua connects the lines.
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