This is an analysis of the poem To Charles Baxter that begins with:
OUR Johnie's deid. The mair's the pity!
He's deid, an' deid o' Aqua-vitae.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXab cccacX ddXefe gggaXa hXXihi Xiijij Xbbcbc gggXXb cccece aXXgag kXXdXd fffdfd XkkfXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110101010 111111010 110101010 1101 1111010010 10101 01111111 11010101 11011101 01110 101100101 11010 00111101 11110111 11010111 1001 11110110 0111 01110101 01111101 01001101 110100 01011001 110100 11111101 111011001 101110101 11010 11010001 11110 101101100 100010100010 1110110010 1101 111111010 1111 01010111 00010101 01110111 11000 01110101 10110 10111101 11011101 10110111 100100 10010101 01010 11111101 11110101 10011111 1101 01010101 1111 110100110 011011100 111111110 1111 0111101110 1111 11110111 00110111 011011101 10110 1111101 11010 11011111 01010011 110010101 10110 11110101 11010 11110111 111101001 11110111 11010 11010011 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; deid, his, an', he, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, an' are repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word adam at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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