This is an analysis of the poem Epitaph On Holy Willie that begins with:
Here Holy Willie's sair worn clay
Taks up its last abode; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aaaX eXXX efdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 110101 011101101 110111 11101101 1101011 11011101 0111011 11010011 1111011 11111101 1111110 11010101 110111 1001110110 110101 11111111 1100110 01111111 0001100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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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