This is an analysis of the poem Epistle On J. Lapraik that begins with:

WHILE briers an' woodbines budding green,
An' paitricks scraichin loud at e'en,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabXc XXXdXd ddXede XffXXX XXXXXa ffXbXb XXXgXg fffeXX ccXhch bbbXbX bbbXXb bbbgcg hhidhd jjjdjd XkXdkd Xffjfj jjjiji iiiXiX hhXdhd cccgcg bbbXbb ffXdfd
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100101 110101110 1101101 0111 01001011 1101 1101011010 010111110 111101110 1111 111101010 1101 11111001 10010111 11110110 0111 010011101 1001 11110111 11010101 111000111 11010 11111111 0110 01110101 11011111 11111101 1110 11010111 0111 11100101 11011101 11111110 11010 11011100 11110 11111111 11111111 11010101 1111 01111101 0111 11111111 10111111 10010101 1111 11000101 1110 11110001 11010111 11010110 11010 100111111 11010 11011111 1110111001 11110111 01010 1111111 1101 11110111 11011111 01010111 11110 11011111 11010 011101010 011101010 110111110 1101 111101110 1111 111111010 110101010 111111110 1111 1111000010 1101 11011101 11000111 11101100 01110 11011011 01110 11011110 1111111 10110101 1101 11111111 0111 11010110 11111101 11111111 10111 11111101 11011 111111101 110101101 110011111 1111 101101111 1111 11011101 11010111 11110101 01100 11011101 11100 011111110 110111010 111111110 0111 111001010 0111 10110101 11110111 11110111 0101 11010111 1111 11110101 11010101 11110101 1010100 10111011 11110 100111010 111110010 11111111 11110 111101110 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 153
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; an', and, or, i, your, me, my, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', at, or are repeated.

    The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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