This is an analysis of the poem Epistle To Davie, A Brother Poet that begins with:
WHILE winds frae aff Ben-Lomond blaw,
An' bar the doors wi' driving snaw,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabbacdcdefgf XgfccXfhfhXXXd XiecceXaXaaXiX hhXjjafhfhiiXi kkchhcccccjlmX mmammafeXeeaXa eecbbcnXnajhhh eXcmmccXcimbmb oohcchpcpclXgh hhqjjqfafajiXi aaiiiiXXXcifqf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,14,14,14,14,14,14,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11011101 1111010 11110101 11011111 01001010 11011001 100101 11010111 111111 111111 110101 110110 01111 01000101 011111010 011111 11111101 11110101 111101 11011111 111101 11011101 111111 1010111101 111101 011011 010101 010111110 11111101 010101 11101111 11011101 010100 01011111 010111 11010101 111101 111111 010011 111111 110111 11110001 11011111 110111 11010111 01011101 110101 01110101 110101 01011101 010101 111111 111101 111111 111111 01010101 01011101 010111 01010101 01010101 011101 01001101 110001 11011111 110101 110110 111101 0110011 111111 11111111 11111111 110101 11111111 11011011 110111 01110101 110101 11010111 110011 110110 0101011 100110 011101 11110101 11110101 110111 11010101 11111111 110101 11010101 111110 11110101 01111 110110 010101 111111 111101 11110111 011111010 110101 01111111 11110111 110101 11010101 010101 11111101 111101 011011 010101 011011 111111 11111101 11110111 111101 01110111 11110101 011101 11100111 011101 01010101 110011 110110 111101 110110 110101 11110101 01010101 010101 1101101 11011101 101011 11111001 010111 11010101 011101 010010 010001 010110 110111 11110111 01110111 100111 01010111 11010101 010111 11010001 111101 11111111 111101 111011 110101 111111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 424
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 164
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; nae, in, it's, no, they, joys, me, my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', to, nae, it's, they, o, the, had, and are repeated.
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