Poem Analysis of The Summary History Of Sir William Wallace by William Topaz McGonagall for close reading

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Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie,
I'm told he went to the High School in Dundee,... full text

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Rhyme scheme: XabbaacXbb ddaaXbaabX eeffgg aahhhhbb bbffff Xggiiffaa ffccaXcccdd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,6,8,6,9,11,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11010010 01110011001 1010111 11011101 11011001 010101001 01100101 1011111001 1010101101 1110101110001 110010101 11010001 01010101 11011101 11011111 1110111 1011011 1011001 1110011101 111110011 10110101 1110011101 11111011 11011101 0101001111 010000101 01101111011 11101011101 111111011 10011100101 110101001 1010111 111010100111 1100101101 11011011011 1100101101 1110101011101 11100011111 11100101011 1010110110001 11010010 1001000101 1111101 101011001101 111001011 11011101 11101001 0101010101 010010101100101 11111101001 10010001111 111110101 111011101 11011101 11110101 10101110101 1011100101 101001001001 1010010101 11111011
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
Average number of words per stanza: 66
Amount of lines: 60
Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, them, they, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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