This is an analysis of the poem The Burial Of The Reverend Gilfillan that begins with:
On the Gilfillan burial day,
In the Hill o' Balgay,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaaaaX bbbb aaaaa ccbX Xaaddaa aaaa XaaX eeff eeaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,5,4,7,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101101001 001110 010110101 1101101010010001 1100100010011011 1111001001 11100010001110 1001110100001001 1100101110001 1110101 011111101010101 1110101101000001011 110001001110101 101010001 1011010101 01010011 01100101101 111010101001001 10010001010111 101010101010110 101101001001110 110100010100101 110100010101 100100110001 11101101001 111110101101 01010111011 010101111000001011 10101101111101 10110111110011 110010010101 1001001001110 01001111111100001 11111101001 101110110001100 10100011101100001 11010101001 101011101 10110010010101 111010010000001 111111101001 11010101111 11100110100001110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, of, as 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 there, when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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