This is an analysis of the poem Song—my Native Land Sae Far Awa that begins with:
O SAD and heavy, should I part,
But for her sake, sae far awa;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX aXaX aXaX aXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 11011110 01011111 11011110 11011101 11011110 11011111 10111110 11010110 11101110 11111101 11101110 11011101 11111110 11010101 11011110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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