This is an analysis of the poem Upon The Death Of The Viscount Of Dundee that begins with:
O last and best of Scots! who didst maintain
Thy country's freedom from a foreign reign; ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011101 1101000101 1101011111 1101011101 1011010101 1110111101 1111010101 1111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; new is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word new is repeated.
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