This is an analysis of the poem Epistle To John Rankine that begins with:
O ROUGH, rude, ready-witted Rankine,
The wale o' cocks for fun an' drinkin!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabXb XXXXbX cccdcd XXXeae fffcfc ggghgh aaXaaa ccXfcf cccece hhhfhf eeeXXX iiXXiX fffcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101011 011111110 110101110 1111 011101010 1011 11110111 10110101 11010101 1101 11110111 1111 010001010 110111010 1011111010 0101 111110110 10111 110101110 010111110 111111010 0101 1101000010 1111 11111101 11110111 111111001 1001 1111111 1101 11111101 11110101 11100101 1111 11011101 1101 11110011 11010101 11010001 011 11011110 1111 01111101 11000111 11011111 1111 11010101 0101 11111101 11011101 11010101 1101 1101111 1101 11111101 11110111 11111101 1111 011110111 1011 11010101 10111001 11110111 11110 11110111 10010 11110101 11010111 11110101 11010 11010101 11110 01111101 11111111 11000101 110100 11110101 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; it, an', by, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, an' are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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