This is an analysis of the poem On A Scotch Bard, Gone To The West Indies that begins with:
A' YE wha live by sowps o' drink,
A' ye wha live by crambo-clink,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabXB cXcbcB dddXdB eXebXB cccbcB fffbfB XXabaB XgXbgB XeXbXB hhhXhb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11111101 11111101 1111 110111101 1101 01111101 11010101 11110101 0101 11111001 1101 01101111 101101011 010111111 1101 111111011 1101 110111010 11111101 111111110 1011 11111101 1101 1111101 11010111 11011111 0101 110101001 1101 111000111 110010101 01010111 1110 11011001 1101 010101010 1010100110 101101010 1101 110100010 1101 111101100 110101110 110111010 1101 011111110 1101 01010111 111011 11110101 1111 111100101 1101 111101010 110111110 111101010 110 111011010 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 69
- 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:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; a', wha, live, ye, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a' is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word sea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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