This is an analysis of the poem Patriotism that begins with:
Whan I haik't up to Craigie Hill
And lookit east and west;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXX AXXX acac Abdb AedeXacac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 110111 110111010 111001 11110101 110111 1011011010 1111111 110101101 110011 11010101 1110111 11110101 1100111 010111011 111101 11110101 100111 101111011 111111 111111101 1100011 11110101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same words whan, when 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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