This is an analysis of the poem On The Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations that begins with:
HEAR, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots,
Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabab bbbXbX XccbXb Xddede fffbfb XaXfXf dddaXa XXXXXX ggghgh eeegeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111101 11000101 01010111 11110 01101101 11110 00111101 01011101 11011101 1111 11111101 1111 111101010 110101010 010111110 1101 1111111100 1111 111111110 110111010 111101110 10110 111010010 11110 01110101 11110111 1111011 11110 11010001 11110 110111110 101111010 110101010 0101 110111110 0101 01011011010 1100101110 11010010 1101 011101010 1111 1111111 01010100 01110101 11110 01010100 1111 11111001 11011111 11111111 11011 11111101 11111 11011111 11010111 10111101 11101 11010101 1110110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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