This is an analysis of the poem Song—the Dumfries Volunteers that begins with:
DOES haughty Gaul invasion threat?
Then let the louns beware, Sir;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXXdEdE XfXadfcfcf aXXXaaGAGA hihiXjXJXJ
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 1101011 11010111 1101111 01110100 1101010 11010101 1101010 11010101 1101010 11111101 01000010 11101101 1101010 01010101 1001010 11011101 1101010 11011101 1101010 01010111 0101111 110101001 1101011 11010101 1111010 11010101 1100010 11010101 1100010 01110101 10101110 111011001 1101010 1011101010 1111010 1111101010 1101010 1111101010 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; british is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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