This is an analysis of the poem Adventures Of King Robert The Bruce that begins with:
King Robert the Bruce's deadly enemy, John of Lorn,
Joined the English with eight hundred Highlanders one morn,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabb cacc ddee XfgX hhaa hhaa hhXh hhgg hhii hhff jjaa hhXX kkff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001010100101 1010011011011 111011010101 11010100111 111001011001010 10100101010101 011011011011010 1010101111001 10101110101 1101101100101 10110110010111 10100101110101001 1001011101 11010101111 11111111110100 1111100110111 101101110101 1101110011011 1111111100101 1111100101101 0101001011101 10111010111011 11111011111 1011011101 111111010110 111111111101 1100111100 1011011111 1110101011101 11110010110101 11111101111010 110001101011010 11010101011111 1110010010101 110011001001 11011111101 1011101011101 1110111111 111100011110101 11101001001011 1011101111 11110111101 110010111001101101 111010111101011 11111011001001 1011001001 01110100011101 1111111111111 11110100110101 0011110110111 101101111001 1110101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; them, of, and, he, to, you, king, by, me, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, then are repeated.
The author used the same words and, then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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