This is an analysis of the poem Glasgow that begins with:
SING, poet, 'tis a merry world;
That cottage smoke is rolled and curled ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbdd eedaadbb ddfXXfdd ffaccabb eegXhgee ffbddbeX iidiidbb aajaaikk dXiddiff kkdbbdaa iifhhfdd llidXijj dddaadkk mmeffeii jjfaafdd llennemm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11010111 0111001 010100101 01110101 011101 110101101 11010101 10111101 11111101 010101 11010011 11011111 010001 01011101 11011101 11010101 00110101 100101 11010101 00110101 010101 11101101 11110111 11010101 01010111 111111 11010111 11110101 0110101 110110111 01111101 01110111 11010001 110101 11001100 01100101 110101 11111101 10010101 11010101 1010101011 110101 11011101 1011001 010101 01110101 01010111 11110101 11010101 10101 10010111 11010111 110001 01010101 11111101 11111001 01011111 1101010 10010111 01111101 100101 11111101 10111101 01110001 11010111 110101 011101010 11010101 110111 11010101 110100101 11111101 11110101 110001 01010101 101110011 110101 11011101 11110001 01010001 10110101 110111 01110011 01011101 010101 11010101 0111010110 1101111 01110001 111111 11011101 00110101 100101 010101010 0111010010 110110101 11010111 1001110 01010101 11010101 0101010 01111101 01000101 110000101 10000111 101101 01110101 11001101 101101 11100101 11011101 010101010 010101010 010111 01111101 110010111 011111 010010101 01000101 11111111 110001111 111111 11111111 11110001 011101 01000111 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 128
- 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; i, of, oh, fair, o, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, oh, o, a, the are repeated.
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- summary of Glasgow;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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