This is an analysis of the poem The Battle Of Glencoe that begins with:
Twas in the month of October, and in the year of 1899,
Which the Boers will remember for a very long time,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX bbcc dede bbXX bbfg ffbb ggbb hhhh iibb eeff iiee fXbbXffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10010010100101 1010010101011 011010101010101 1010011101001 0110010101011 101110001111 1111101001 1010110001 1101001100101001010 110001100101001 10111001010011010 1001001101001 11001000111010001 01101100010101 011100110101010100 001010010110011 11100101011 10101110101 1110010010110001 1101100010100 1101100010100101 01110101101 1110110111 11001011000000 11010010100 10110110101000 1010101101001 11010101010110 10110010010101 11010100001 1111110001101 101110010101 1010101001001001 0101010110111 11001011001 11001101101 0101111011 110101111 10111000101 1001111011 10101101111001 10101101101 01001111011101 1011110011 1101001011101 11101100111110 1011100101 1010101011 100101111 01000010101101 11101001001001 1110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (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; of, and, to, they, but, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, but are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word will at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Battle Of Glencoe;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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