This is an analysis of the poem My Last Farewell To Stirling that begins with:
Nae lark in transport mounts the sky
Or leaves wi' early plaintive cry,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab X bbbb ccXB dddB bXbB eeeB ffdB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11001101 11110101 11010101 11110101 10 11101111 110101111 11010101 01110101 11111001 11110011 11010111 11111101 11110101 010110101 11010111 11111101 11010111 10001111 11111101 11111101 11111101 11110101 11110101 11111101 11111111 110001101 11011111 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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