This is an analysis of the poem Border Ballad that begins with:
March, march, Ettrick and Teviotdale,
Why the deil dinna ye march forward in order! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabbcddc efefeeagga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101100 101101110010 11101100 10110111010 100101 100111 10011010010 111101 100101 11011111010 10011110110 1001001101 10011010010 10010001101 10110 11110 10111110010 1011001 100101 10110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 377
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; march is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word come is repeated.
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