This is an analysis of the poem Lines On Captain Wogan. To An Oak Tree that begins with:
To an Oak Tree, In the Churchyard of --, In the Highlands of Scotland, Said to Mark the Grave of Captain Wogan, Killed in 1649.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abab cdcd dede fgfg hihi hfhf eded jcjc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110011000100101010101010101 10010101 11011101 11001101 11010101 11110001 10101101 011100101 010000101 11110101 01010111 01010101 11110101 111101010 11011101 110101110 01111101 11111101 11010101 01010101 11001101 111011101 110111001 11000101 110100101 11010101 01110101 111100101 11010101 01011101 11011101 11010101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, thy are repeated.
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