This is an analysis of the poem The Fall Of Jock Gillespie that begins with:
This fell when dinner-time was done --
'Twixt the first an' the second rub --... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXde afgX hXXX XXeX gXXX fiai gXiX fjXj hfXf XahX iXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 10110101 11111101 0011001 11111111 111111 11110101 1100101 11111101 110101 11011101 101010100 1111001111 1100111 1011110101 10011110 1001010100 101111 101010101 1011111 100011111111 10001010 101010111 10101010 101111101 10100111 1010111001 1011101 10001110111 10001100 101011101 10001110 101110101 1011111 101100101 111111 101110101 1010101 101111110 1010101 101111111 1010111 101010101 1011010 101110101 1010111 011110101 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', syne, he, l are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The author used the same word there's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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