This is an analysis of the poem Lament For Culloden that begins with:
THE lovely lass o' Inverness,
Nae joy nor pleasure can she see; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXaaXa aabXbaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 11110111 110111110 11011101 101101 11010101 11111101 11011101 11010101 11110101 11010101 11010101 11011101 11011110 11011111 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 353
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou is repeated.
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