This is an analysis of the poem The Heart Of The Bruce that begins with:
It was upon an April morn,
While yet the frost lay hoar,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cede fghg eaba iDgd edid gfcf djfj dkbk ffXf Xjij idfd Xblb cleX dDad ffmX dflf kffX fdad igXg bnaX XdXX kdfX gacX foio jdbX nkfk idfd ipgp ddnX fXia kdcd aXaX adad cbaX ljij Xaaa flal mdfd fbaX jaca kbXX ffif fbiX iXab agfX fdXX ijbj fbmb idld
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01011101 110111 11110101 110101 11110101 101101 11110001 110101 11110111 110101 10110101 010111 11010101 010101 11110111 110111 00110101 110111 01010101 100101 1101101101 110001 10011111 111101 11011101 010101 111110101 1100101 11000101 110101 11111011 111111 11101111 110101 10110101 00101001 11100101 110101 11010111 101101 11111111 111101 11110101 001101 11010101 110101 01010101 1100001 11111101 111101 10110101 010111 11010111 111111 010010101 101101 10110101 111101 11011101 110101 11110111 110001 11011101 111001 11010101 110101 11010101 010001 01101101 1110101 10110111 111101 10010111 111101 11011101 1110110 11111111 010101 01110101 110111 11110001 0101101 110100100 10101001 11110101 110011 1101011 111101 11110100 011111 11010010 110001 110101011 1100101 11111101 001010 111111011 111001 11010101 010101 11001101 1111010 100100101 1101110 10111111 111101 11110101 10100100 11111101 111101 11010111 111101 11111111 111101 11010111 110101 11111101 0101001 01000101 110101 11011111 110101 11111111 010101 01110101 1010001 11011101 101101 11111111 1100110 11110101 110111 11010001 110110 10110111 010101 01010111 110111 10110111 101111 10110111 111101 11010100 1111010 01010111 010111 11011101 010111 110010100 111111 11111111 1100011 10011111 110111 11010101 110101 11110101 111101 1011100101 110111 10111101 101101 11001101 1111110 11010101 110101 101010101 1111101 11011111 111111 10111111 1101110 10010111 11011 11010101 100101 11001101 110111 11111101 1111010 01011101 1100101 1010111000 110101 11010101 1110111 11110111 011111 11111111 110101 11110101 110111 11010101 010111 11011101 111101 11111101 11111 11111111 010111 11111111 010101 010011101 011101 11011111 010101 01010111 1100101 11011011 1101001 11000101 01111 10110111 101111 01110101 110101 01110001 110101 11010101 110111 11111101 111111 11011101 111110 11001101 1010111 11001111 010101 11010101 110101 11011111 010101 11110101 010111 11010111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 59
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 236
- 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; and, i, down, or, for, in, thee, them, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or, 'make, and are repeated.
The author used the same words and, 'we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Heart Of The Bruce;
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