This is an analysis of the poem Address To A Haggis that begins with:
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXaX bbbcbc Xddede ffXgXg XhhXhX iiidid cccXXX jXjXjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 11010101 10011111 1111 11110001 1111 01010111 11010101 11110101 0111 11110101 1101 01110111 11111101 10110101 111 111101001 1101 11111111 11010111 1111101010 1111 11101101 1001 01110110 11011101 1101101 10110 11110101 11010 11011101 11010101 01010111 0101 11011101 1101 11010101 010011001 1001101 1101 11111101 1111 11111111 11011111 11011101 11010 101101001 10010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1679
- Average number of words per stanza: 273
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words your, or, his are repeated.
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