This is an analysis of the poem The Brigs Of Ayr that begins with:
THE SIMPLE Bard, rough at the rustic plough,
Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXdeefeeeddffggee hhXieeejjddkkeeeekkeee ddllmmmmkkallXkgg ddllXeXdjjggffnnmmddooXkpX XjkkXX XfmmggXgaX ddXpqqeeccffXemmXkeemX XXXXeeXXggkkkmmffpppX XerkXeppXeXaXpffrrXfrreX XaccddddccmmeXhhgX ddmmmmmmnn ssseeddddmm eeddnnkkppaadXlXXXii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,22,17,26,6,10,22,21,24,18,10,11,22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110101 1001010101 0101010101 100101100111 0101010111 1111011101001 1110010101 0101010101 11010001010 11010110001 11010011001 0101010101 1111010001 010101010101 1101011101 11011001001 1101010001 1101010101 1011010111 1001000101 1101010101 1101010101 0111010101 0101010101 1101111101 1111010111 011111111 1101010101 01010101101 10001110101 110101010101 11111101001 01110101101 01001111101 0101010101 0101111101 1101001101 1101011101 11000110101 11010111101 1101010101 0101010101 1101111111 0101010101 1101110101 110100110001 1011010101 0111100001 1101010101 11010110111 1101110101 11110110101 1001110101 0101110111 1101010101 1101111111 01010111101110101110111 0111010101 1011110101 111111011 010111101011 0101010101 110101001001 1111010101 0101010101 1101110111 11011110101 11111010110 01010100101 1101010010 01011010101 1111010011 1101000101 11010111010 110010111010 101001010101 0101010001 1111111101 1101111101 101011000111 1111011101 011110111101 1111000101 0111010101 10011101001 01001110101 11001110111 11001010101 11010110110 1100111111110 1101011101 1110011111 1111111101 10001111101 110100001100 1110101111101 1101011101 0111011001 1111010111 1101011111 011111101 11011101011 1111010111 10111110101 11110101110 1110001111101 01001110111 1111010110 1001110101 11110101010 11110001110 1101010111 110010010001 10011010101 1101010101 1101010111 1101010101 011100111010 01001010111 1101110101 1111111001 101011001011 11011101001 1111111101 11011100101 0101010011 11010101010 11101010111111 011010111011 11010101000 10010111000 101010101001 0101010101 1011010101 0101001110 111101001 0101000101 1101010101 1101010101 110011110111 1011010101 0101010111 1101010101 1101110101 11010111010 11011101010 10111101010 11110110110000 11101110101010 01110111010 110100110010 10011100011 11010111100 01110111010 1101011101 1101010101 11011100010 11110111010 1111111001 0111111111 11110101100 01110101010 1100010111 1101011001 11010111010 01111101110 1101010011 1101100101 11010101010 01001100010 11111101110 1111101111111100 1110111111101 1101111101 11110111110 10110101110 1101011101 0111011101 010001111 1111010011 01111111010 01110001110 1101010101 0101010001 11111011110 11010101110 0101010101 1100010001 11010111010 11010011000110 1101110101 11010101101 1111110111 0101010101 10010011101 10011100101 11010010111 0101110111 1101000101 110101010101 11101101001 01010100101 110110110101 1111110101 01010011101 11010101010 1101010101010 1111110001 1101010111 010010101001 110100110101 0100010101 0100010100 0101010101 0101010101 11010010101 11110101001 1101011101 1100010101 1101000101 11010100101 1101110101 1101000101 1101000101 01011101011 0100011001 01111001011 1011010101 01010111011 1111100101 0101010001 0101010001 1101110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 822
- Average number of words per stanza: 143
- Amount of lines: 245
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, his, your, or, ye, and, them, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, nae, or, ye, what, his are repeated.
The author used the same word 'twas at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them, o't are repeated).
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