This is an analysis of the poem For A' That And A' That that begins with:
Tho' right be aft put down by strength,
As mony a day we saw that,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbbb bbbbcbcb dbdbcbXb bbbbbbbb bbbbebXb ebXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11001111 01110111 1101111 111111 11000111 01011101 0101111 11000101 0101111 01111001 1100111 01010101 1111101 11000101 0101111 010010101 1101101 01010111 1101111 11011101 0111111 11110110 1101011 10011101 1101011 01010001 1111111 01010101 0101111 01110101 1101111 11111101 1101001 01010111 1101011 11011101 0101111 11010111 11001011 11011101 10001011 01011101 1101111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; that, a', in, spite, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines that is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word that at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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