This is an analysis of the poem To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, Recommending A Boy that begins with:
I HOLD it, sir, my bounden duty
To warn you how that Master Tootie,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbbXcdcdeXbX ffgXXghihXeaXa XXdXbdXdXdXjij
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111010 01111101 10011 110101101 11110101 111111 11110101 1111011 11011101 1101010 111111 110111 010110 110100 10111101 11011111 011101 11111011 11110101 111101 110011001 111111 11110001 111110 011101 1101011 111011 0101110 110101110 010111110 01011 01010101 11010101 010111 11110111 1101011 10010011 0111011 011111 111101 011111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 423
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', him, then, to, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', to are repeated.
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