This is an analysis of the poem My Heart's In The Highlands that begins with:
Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb CCDD ddeeXCCDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11001011001 01101001001 01011001011 01001011011 11001011011 11001001001 010011110001 11001001011 11001011001 11001111001 11001011101 11001011101 11001011011 11001001001 010011110001 11001001011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; i, of, my, heart's, in, highlands, farewell, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, farewell are repeated.
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