This is an analysis of the poem The Twa Jocks that begins with:
Says Bauldy MacGreegor frae Gleska tae Hecky MacCrimmon frae Skye:
"That's whit I hate maist aboot fechtin' -- it makes ye sae deevilish dry;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbXX ccXdXX eebXXX XXXXXX ddbbaX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010011011010011 101111101001111001 11101111101011011 1110100111011011 111010110111010111 10011001100011010011 110100110101101001 11011101011101111 11101111011001001 10111101011101101 111110100110011110 1010110100011010011 110100110101001111 11101101011011001 11101101011011101 11011011101101110 110111010111010011 1010011110011010011 110100110101001111 01111001111011011 11111111111011111 11111101011011011 111011110111110011 1001111110011010011 110100110101111101 11111011011101101 11101101001001011 01111001001011111 11111101011101101 1010111010011010011 110010110101101011 11101101011111011 111111110111010110 110100110101011101 111110100111010011 1011110110011010011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 472
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 78 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ye, in, i'm are repeated.
The author used the same word says at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word skye at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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