This is an analysis of the poem Epistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner that begins with:
AULD comrade dear, and brither sinner,
How's a' the folk about Glenconner?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcXccddbbbbeeffXgXccchXXihh ccjjkkii ffllXXffXXffaahhgXeeXeeffmm nnccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,8,27,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111010 110101100 11101101 11010101 111100110 1101010100 111111010 110100011 110101010 110101010 010011110 110111010 111101010 10010101 01011101 11110111 111111110 010101010 1101111 11110101 111111110 010101110 11110111 1101101 010101010 011101101 110111010 10110001 11011111 01010101 11110111 01110101 11011111 01010011 111111011 110101101 01010111 11011111 111001010 010111010 11001111 01010111 110111010 111100100 110101010 011101010 110101010 111101010 111101010 110100010 101111010 111101010 110101110 010111010 101111010 111101010 010101010 1010100010 11010110 110010101 1111010111 1101111010 1111001010 100111001 11101101 111111011 111011011 01110111 11111101 110111110 111100010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 637
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; an', and, mony are repeated.
The author used the same word my 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 him, you are repeated).
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