This is an analysis of the poem The Memory Of Burns that begins with:
How sweetly come the holy psalms
From saints and martyrs down,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dedefgfg eaeabcbc bfbXcaca hahabbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 011101 01000101 010101 01010101 011101 010100101 011101 110101001 010111 11010101 010111 11010001 110101 01111111 010101 10010101 110111 01010101 0100101 11010011 110101 11110101 010111 0101001010 010111 110101010 110111 010101001 0101010 01010111 0100111 11011101 011100 11010101 010111 11011101 110101 11000101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Memory Of Burns;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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