This is an analysis of the poem Verses On Captain Grose that begins with:
KEN ye aught o' Captain Grose?—Igo, and ago,
If he's amang his friends or foes?—Iram, coram, dago.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX aX aX aX aX aX aX aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110110101 01100111101110 0101010110101 11010101101110 011101110101 1100101101110 0111101010101 110101010101110 100100101110101 110111111101110 11011011010101 100111010101110 11111100110101 010101101101110 11110101010101 011101010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or is repeated.
The author used the same words is, so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word dago at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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