This is an analysis of the poem March, March, Ettrick And Teviotdale that begins with:

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March, march, Ettrick and Teviotdale, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXbccdeed Xfgfgffbaab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11101100 101101110010 11101100 10110111010 100101 100111 10011010010 111101 100101 11011111010 1 10011110110 1001001101 10011010010 10010001101 10110 11110 10111110010 1011001 100101 10110110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 381
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; march, come are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word come is repeated.

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