This is an analysis of the poem Charles Edward At Versailles that begins with:

ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF CULLODEN
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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcbddadefafcgfgfhfhbfefaijihhXhfklkjchcmefeXhlhhgXgecfcldbdnfdflgbgbenemXadmkmkeglgmfffjeceagXgaaealafafamafknkababfopoacbXffXfalblqcXclbebbgegbfnfpamalclcXgegcjbjhkXkfgfgafdfabjXchfhlldlXfXfafcfhfjXahahlhahXchcmcacehmhcXadbfafjclcmcdccrarqcdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,244,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101000100 10111110 1001101 10111111 0110101 101010011 0010101 10101110 10100101 10101010 1010101 10111010 1110101 10111011 1110101 10101110 1010101 11111010 10100101 10101010 1010111 10110010 1111111 10111010 001011 10110010 1010101 10110010 1011001 10101110 1111101 10101110 1010111 11101010 1010101 10101010 10101001 11111010 1010001 10101010 10101001 10110010 1011101 11111010 1000101 10101000 10101001 00101010 00101001 10101010 1110101 10111000 1010101 11101010 1010101 00101010 1010101 101001010 1010111 10101010 1010001 10111110 1110101 10111010 1010101 10101010 0110101 11101010 0010110 11111010 1010011 11101010 1010101 10101110 1010110 10101010 1111111 10101110 1100101 11111010 1011111 11101010 1110101 10111010 1010101 11101110 10010111 11101010 1111101 11101010 10100101 10011111 11100111 11101110 1110111 1010001 1011101 10101010 10111010 10101010 101010010 11101010 10101110 10101110 10111110 11101110 11101010 10101010 10101010 101010010 1010011 111001110 1111111 01101010 1001101 11111010 1111111 101110100 1010101 11001010 1010001 11111010 11100001 10101011 0010101 101010110 1110101 11101010 10101001 11111010 1010111 10001010 1011111 11001010 1010111 01101110 1010101 10111010 1011101 10101010 1110111 10101010 1010101 10001010 1010101 11101010 1010101 11101010 10100101 11101010 10101010 11110010 10001010 10101010 10010101 10101010 0010101 10100010 1010111 11100010 0010101 100111011 1010101 10101110 1011101 10101110 1011111 111010011 1110101 11101010 1110111 10101010 1110101 11110110 1110101 10101110 1010101 11111010 1110101 10111010 1110110 10011011 0010111 10011010 1010101 11101010 1110111 10101010 0010101 10001100 1010101 10001010 1000101 111000100 1010101 00111111 0110101 00101010 0011110 011001010 1110001 10101010 1010101 10101110 0010101 11101010 1010101 11101010 11101001 00111000 1010101 111110010 1110111 11101110 1011111 10111010 1111111 11111011 1111101 11101110 1010101 10111011 0010110 10101110 0010111 11101010 1010101 101010110 1110101 101011001 1010101 11101110 1011101 10101110 1010111 11101010 1010101 11111001 1010101 10111110 1111111 10111010 1010110 10101110 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3931
  • Average number of words per stanza: 709
  • Amount of lines: 246
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; day, we, of, to, and, it, me are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words had, what, love, where, bade, brought, and, woman's, let, give are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase pride connects the lines.

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