This is an analysis of the poem Elegy On Willie Nicol's Mare that begins with:
PEG NICHOLSON was a good bay mare,
As ever trod on airn;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb AbXb AcXc AXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010011 110111 11110101 110111 110010011 111111 11110101 1101001 110010011 111101 11110101 110101 110010011 1011101 11011111 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 19
- 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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