This is an analysis of the poem The Widow Of Glencoe that begins with:
Do not lift him from the bracken,
Leave him lying where he fell-...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdddedfdgheheaaaeidi ajajdkXkcklkacXcXhlXdgfgdadaahfhgaaamglgbhXXdaXagaXackXkfgfgandnfdfdgacaXicilhehdhidcdXnfnXiXiadXdgebXdmlmlaXaaajaXdiddiXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,122,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110010 1110111 10111010 1101111 10111010 1011101 10101010 0010101 10111011 1110101 101110100 100100101 10111110 1110001 10111011 1011001 10101010 1111101 10101010 10110001 10111110 1010111 101001010 1011101 11111110 1000111 11101010 1010101 11100010 1110101 10111010 1110101 11110110 1110111 11101110 1010101 11101110 11111110 101011010 10111110 1011110 1010101 11110110 101001 10101110 0010001 101001110 10100101 11101010 0010001 10100110 10010101 10101010 1010111 01101010 1110101 10100010 1010111 100001010 10111001 10101110 1010111 001001010 1111101 101001010 1011111 11101010 1000110 10101110 10010001 10101010 1010101 10001010 1010101 101010100 0010101 10101010 1011101 10101010 1010101 10101110 11101101 11101011 1010001 101001010 1010101 10101010 1010101 100110100 0110101 10101010 1011001 11100110 1011101 10100010 1010001 101011100 1110111 10111010 1111101 11101010 1111101 00101010 1010101 11111010 1111101 10101111 1111101 11101110 1110111 10101000 1101101 10111010 0010111 11011110 1010101 10100100 1111111 11111110 1110111 10101010 1010101 11111110 0011001 10101010 1010101 11011110 0110101 11111010 1010101 11101110 10100111 10101010 1010111 10111110 1010101 10101110 1000101 11111110 1111101 10101011 1011101 11111110 0010101 10100010 1010011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2347
- Average number of words per stanza: 433
- Amount of lines: 146
- 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; him, and, not, as, thy, left, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, weep, and, left, other are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dearest connects the lines.
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