This is an analysis of the poem It Was A' For Our Rightful King that begins with:
1 It was a' for our rightful king
2 That we left fair Scotland's strand;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcb XdXdcd XcXccc XdXdcd XeXece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101111101 11111101 101111101 11101101 111 11101101 111011111 1110101 1111101100 1111101 111 1111101 111111101 1010101 111010101 10011101 111 11011101 101010101 11010101 111110111 1100101 111 1100101 111011101 1111101 111111110 1011111 111 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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; and is repeated.
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