This is an analysis of the poem Election Ballad For Westerha' that begins with:
THE LADDIES by the banks o' Nith
Wad trust his Grace 1 wi a', Jamie;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa aXXX XaXaB XaXaB XaXaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 110111110 1110111001 11111010 101110110 11101 010010101 111110 01110101 11010110 11110101 11011110 11101 11010101 11101110 11010101 11110010 11101 01011100 11010110 11111101 110100110 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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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