This is an analysis of the poem Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 X. Rob Roy’s Grave . that begins with:

A FAMOUS man is Robin Hood,
The English ballad-singer's joy!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaabccc defe cgbg cafa hfaf Xidi fjdj aaca ikXk abgX dfdf idbd kbhX ajcj kdgd kXaj hfff Xafa adld dkdk amem XlfX abdb dcic hkck cdXd bala bfhXXiefe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01010101 01010101 11010110 11101101 110111 11010101 11110101 01001101 101110101 11011101 11110101 110101 11111111 01100101 01010011 110101 111111011 11011101 10010001 110101 110011101 11010111 11110111 110101 11010101 11011101 11010111 010001 11010111 01011111 11110111 111101 11010111 11110101 00111111 011101 11010011 10000101 111111010 111111 11010101 01001111 11010101 010100 11000101 111100010 10010001 1100010 11110111 11010101 11010111 110001 11010101 11010101 01110111 110101 11011111 11011101 01011101 111101 11011110 11100001 11001111 111111 11111111 10011101 11110001 0111001 11110101 10111101 11111101 110101 11110101 0111101 11110101 110001 10011111 11110001 01011101 110111 11111111 01011111 11110001 010001 11111101 00111001 11111101 010101 11011111 01010111 10110111 0100011 10011001 11101101 11110011 111111 11110101 111111001 11111101 110111 11110111 11000101 10010111 010001 11001101 01110101 11110110 110101 11110111 01110111 110011101 111101 110100101 01010111 0101111 111101 11111111 11010101 01110101 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, in, and, that, not, of, poor, man's are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word 'all at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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