Poem Analysis of A Man's A Man For A' That by Robert Burns for close reading

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Is there for honesty poverty
That hings his head, an' a' that; ... full text

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Rhyme scheme: XabaAaXa cacaAaXa dadaAada aaaaAaea baeaAXa
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,7,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: limerick
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 011100100 1101111 01011111 1101111 111111 1101111 01010101 0101111 111100111 1101111 11111111 0101111 111111 1101111 010111011 0111111 1111101 1111111 11010101 1101111 111111 0101111 01110101 1111111 01110101 0101111 111011001 1111011 111111 1100111 01111111 1101111 11111101 1100111 111110101 1101111 111111 11010110 1100111
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
Average number of words per stanza: 51
Amount of lines: 39
Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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, a', an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines that is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word that at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase that connects the lines.

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