This is an analysis of the poem Address To The Unco Guid that begins with:
My Son, these maxims make a rule,
An' lump them aye thegither; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXbcbX Xdadaeae fgfghXhX iXiejbjX hkXkalal bmbmcgcg ggggnbnb bbXbococXbhbhccci
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 1101100 01010001 0101100 01011111 1111110 11010101 1101110 100101111 11111110 1101110 11011111 1101110 11010111 0111110 0110101 1101110 11110001 1101110 11011101 1101010 11110101 1110100 1111101 1101100 11111101 1101010 11010101 1101010 01111001 1100110 11111101 1101110 11110101 1111010 11010110 1101010 11111111 1111111 10011101 0101011 11011111 1101010 11100011 0100110 11110101 10101010 11110101 0100010 110101001 1101010 01111101 0101110 01110101 0101010 11110111 1101010 11011101 1101010 11110101 0101010 11110101 0101110 11110111 1101110 11011101 0100111 111101001 101010010 11010101 1101010 11110101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sae, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, their, a are repeated.
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