Poem Analysis of Song—composed In August by Robert Burns for close reading

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NOW westlin winds and slaught'ring guns
Bring Autumn's pleasant weather;... full text

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Rhyme scheme: ababcbdb aaXaXdXd Xbcbecec XfXfebcb XgdgXbeb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: rima
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11011101 1101010 010011101 1001010 110111001 0101010 1011111111 0101110 01010101 0101010 01110101 0101010 110101010 0101010 010110001 0101010 11011101 0101010 11011110 1101010 10010101 1001010 01010101 0101010 11010101 1101010 01010101 1101110 11111101 1101010 01010101 1101010 11011101 10101110 11111101 1111110 11010101 1100010 11101101 1111010
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
Average number of words per stanza: 45
Amount of lines: 44
Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, some, not are repeated.

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