This is an analysis of the poem Edinburgh After Flodden that begins with:
I.
News of battle!-news of battle!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcccCdedfghgfaia X CceXhhjhkihijheh X dlblilXXjbjbhhihmXjn X ebhbhlilhgcginkncacanilX a eonoXhehngigjdfd a canahgkgcgccgahihbgagoefapkXX X ehjhjhahcdidclXlcgcgjanaedcX X XgigfiiikihgbghiXXjnin X jqrqilblchihddbd k XclceldlkbibaikihafaebhX a db
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,1,16,1,20,1,24,1,16,1,29,1,28,1,22,1,16,1,24,1,40,1,28,1,24,1,38,1,60,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10101010 1110101 10101010 10101001 10101110 1010111 10011010 1001101 11111010 1010101 11101010 1000101 11101010 10101001 10111010 1111101 1 10101110 1110001 10101010 1000101 10101110 1010111 10101110 1010101 11101010 1011101 10101010 1010111 10101010 0011101 11101010 1000101 1 11101010 1111111 11111010 1010101 11111010 1110101 111011000 0011001 101010100 1010101 11111010 100011 10101110 1010111 10101010 1010101 10111110 11110110 11101010 1010101 1 0100010 110111 01101111 0101011 111101011 111111 11100101 110111 11000101 110111 11110101 110111 100000010 111101 10010101 110101 11010111 111001 11011101 111111 1010101001 011101 11010101 110001 1 1011010 011111 111100101 011101 1101010 11011 111011100 1010101 1111101 110101 101010101 110101 11110100 110111 1100010 1110001 1 1111010 011111 01011101 110001 11110101 1101101 11010101 111111 11110101 100111 010111001 11011101 1101001 11010111 100101 11010101 111101 01111111 110111 11001101 100101 110110111 1111100 1101110 110110 10101110 1010011 11000101 0100100 1 11010100 110101 1011010 111101 11101010 0011101 10101111 0010001 1111010 0110111 11101110 1010101 11111010 1010101 101011000 0110001 11111010 1011101 10111110 0010101 10111010 1010101 01101010 1110111 11111010 1010101 10111010 1011011 1 1111000 1010111 10101010 1010001 10101110 1010101 10111110 1111101 10101011 1110111 10101110 1110101 11100010 1111101 10111010 1111111 101110010 1010110 10111110 1100101 11100100 1110110 1 10101010 1110101 10100110 1010001 10111010 0010101 11111110 1111101 10101110 10101101 10101010 1010001 101011100 1010111 11101110 11100101 1 1010110 1011101 1011101 1011101 11101010 1010111 11101010 10100111 11111011 1011101 10101110 1010111 1111111 110101 11110011 110111 11110101 111101 11110100 0101001 1101010 1010101 11101110 1010101 1 11111010 1011101 11101011 1110101 00111010 1110101 10101010 0011101 11101110 1010101 10101010 1011101 10101010 1010101 10101110 1011111 10101010 1010111 100101010 10010101 10101111 1010101 10111110 1010101 11111010 1011101 11111010 1110101 11011010 1010101 11101011 1010101 11111010 1110001 11111011 1111001 00101010 1110101 101010100 1010101 1 11101010 1110101 10101010 1010111 11101010 1110101 11101010 1010101 101010010 1010111 10101010 1010101 100101010 0011101 10100010 0010001 10101010 1010111 10101010 1010001 01101010 1000101 10100010 1010101 10101110 1010111 10111010 11101001 1 11111100 1110011 11101110 1110101 11101010 0110111 100110100 1011111 10101110 1111101 10001110 1010101 11101011 1110101 11101010 0110101 11111010 1111101 11111010 0001001 11011010 10101110 10101010 10101100 1 10111010 1011100 10101110 1011101 10101010 1010101 11111110 0011101 11100010 1010101 11111011 0111101 11111111 1011101 01101001 1110101 11101010 00110010 10111110 1010111 10100110 1010111 10101110 1111101 11101010 1010101 11111010 1110111 11111010 1111101 11111010 1010111 10111010 1010111 10101110 1011101 10101010 11111110 1 10111010 0010101 10101010 1010101 10101110 1110101 11111010 1111101 10101110 1111101 00101010 1011101 10111010 00101001 10101010 1000101 10101011 1110101 101011110 1010111 10111010 1010101 10101110 1000101 10111010 1110111 10101010 1010111 10101010 1010101 10100110 1110111 11111110 1111101 10101010 11011001 11111010 1111101 11111110 1010101 11100111 01101010 01101010 10011110 10111011 1011101 10101010 10100101 10111010 1010101 10101010 0010101 10111110 1110101 11111110 1011101 11111110 0110101 10100010 01101010
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 424
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 430
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; of, and, his, he, by, it, our, i, thy, in, to, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words news, and, 'your, that, then, by, surely, every, sitting, all, we, once, where are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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