This is an analysis of Heather Ale: A Galloway Legend by Robert Louis Stevenson.
From the bonny bells of heather
They brewed a drink long-syne,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdXae efgfcefe bghgfeae eiXibgag fjcjhkak acgclkck amlmandn ehdhfndn ahaclodo lhlhbcac meXeaglg
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 00101010 110111 1101110 110111 1101110 110011 1111010 0110101 1101010 011001 1101010 110011 101000110 110111 11001010 0010101 1010010 110101 10100010 110101 0110110 1100101 0100010 110001 0100111 110101 101101010 10101 0111110 110111 01001010 110101 01001010 101101 11011110 110101 1010110 100111 0110110 100101 01111010 1110101 101011010 110101 1101110 1110101 10111110 1010001 1101110 111111 01011010 011001 1111010 110101 1101010 0110101 101001 1100101 11101010 101001 01111010 1111001 11101110 101111 11001010 1101001 11111110 1001011 1111111 1111001 101101010 111101 1101111 111001 10111111 111111 10110010 1100101 111011010 100101 1101111 101111 11101010 110101 11010010 1011001 110110 0100101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 88
Repeated words/phrases
and, him, of, i
Anaphora
was, he, the, and