This is an analysis of the poem The Burial March Of Dundee that begins with:

Sound the fife, and cry the slogan-
Let the pibroch shake the air...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdefeghdhibibXXjklgfgmhjhfkdkndddndedfhehglnlXhfhgkjkXofofhXhigfgXfXfioaomXifjbdbhadallflfpapXdjdjhgX dldlXclcapkpgofoabjbekfkXpnpgaaafldXndkddleliaXa edXdnakaXbmbjkdXXgfgaidijkXkfonoghjh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 104,48,36,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111010 1010101 00101010 1000111 10101010 1110101 10111110 1010101 10001010 1000101 10101010 1110101 10101010 1010101 01101010 0111001 11101010 11101001 11110010 0010001 11100010 1010101 10101010 1010001 11101010 11110111 01101010 0101101 10100010 1011111 11111110 1110111 101010010 1010101 10101010 0010101 11111110 10100101 10101010 1010101 11101111 1111101 10001010 10100111 10111011 1010101 11111110 1110111 1010100 1011101 10101010 0010101 100101010 1011101 10101010 0110101 11101110 1110111 11111010 1110001 11101010 11101001 11101010 1110111 11101011 1011111 10100010 1110001 10101000 00101001 11101010 1110011 11101110 1011101 10101110 1100101 10111010 10100010 11101010 1010111 10101010 1010101 11111010 1010101 10101111 1010111 10101010 1110011 10110010 1011101 01100010 1010111 111010010 10100101 10111010 1110101 10111010 0100111 11111010 1110101 11101010 0110111 10111010 1111110 10101110 0110001 10101010 0010011 10101100 1011111 11111010 1011101 10101010 1110111 11101010 1010101 11101010 1000101 10101010 1010001 11101010 1011111 10101010 1110101 00110010 1110101 10111010 1000101 10101010 10010111 10101010 1110101 11100110 1110101 11101010 101011 10101010 1010101 10100010 1011010 101010010 1011011 11101110 1011101 11111111 1011111 11100110 0010101 11111011 1011101 1010100 1110111 10101110 1100101 11111010 1010101 11111110 10101001 11111011 0010001 10111010 1010101 100101010 10101001 10101010 1111101 00100011 1010001 10101010 1010101 10101010 0010101 10111010 1011101 11101010 1110101 111010100 1100101 10101100 1000101 10101010 0010101 11101110 11101001 11101010 1010111 10111010 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2033
  • Average number of words per stanza: 370
  • Amount of lines: 188
  • 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:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, and, our, of, think, by, last are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words never, lo, bade, and, think, by, last are repeated.

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