Poem Analysis of Willie Brew'D A Peck O' Maut by Robert Burns for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Willie Brew'D A Peck O' Maut that begins with:

O WILLIE 1 brew'd a peck o' maut,
And Rob and Allen cam to see; ... full text

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Rhyme scheme: XaXX XaXa XabaA bXXaA XaXaA X
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,5,5,1,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 110110111 11110101 11011111 1101010 1011111111 1101011 01110111 11110101 11111101 11011111 110011100 11011100 11111 00011101 11000111 11110111 11111101 11111 11110110 01010101 11010111 10011011 11111 1110010100100010100100110101001001110010111
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
Average number of words per stanza: 32
Amount of lines: 29
Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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