This is an analysis of the poem Election Ballad At Close Of Contest For Representing The Dumfries Burghs, 1790 that begins with:
FINTRY, my stay in wordly strife,
Friend o' my muse, friend o' my life,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcb ddeffe ggXffh iijkXj lldffd llmddm jjkbbk fffXfX ddfddl jjnkkn ccfXlX lffkkX jjhffh kXmddm lliddi ddXoon kkXddX kkeffe ppfjjX kknfXn bbhffh ffiXii ffnppn ffhqqh XXnlfX jjmXfm Xllheej
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 11111111 1111011 11111101 101001111 1111111 11111101 11110101 1110010 010100111 11110101 1111010 11111111 11111101 110010 01110101 11010101 11001110 11011101 11110101 010101 11111101 11011111 111101 01110111 10011101 0101010 111111010 100001010 1101010 11100101 01010001 1101010 110101010 010101010 1101010 11010101 11110001 110001 10111101 111010101 011001 11011001 11010101 0101110 11110111 11011101 11010010 01011111 10010101 0110010 111011101 110011001 01001010 110110101 1100011101 0111010 11011101 100101 1100010 11011111 010101101 0110010 10111010 10010101 0101010 1010101 1100010101 1101110 11110101 11110101 1011110 10010111 101001101 1101010 10010101 11110101 1101010 010111001 10011111 0101010 11111101 11010101 010010 1011101001 01010001 1001010 11001101 11010101 1101010 01110101 011101001 0101100 10010111 010011001 11001010 11111111 01010101 010101 110101101 1101011 111001 11011101 110100101 1101010 11010101 111100101 1001010 01010101 11010111 01101010 01111101 11010101 0101010 10010111 01010101 1111010 010100010 01010110 11010010 11010101 11010101 1100010 01011111 11111011 1111110 110010101 01011111 1101110 11011110 01111111 0101110 11110101 1101011 0101010 11111111 11011101 11001010 11111011 10010101 1101010 1100111001 1100101001 1101110 11110101 11010101 1101010 11110001 111110101 110011000 11110101 11011101 0110010 11010101 01000101 1101010 11111101 11111111 1101010 11011111 101110111 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 188
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, the, and are repeated.
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