This is an analysis of the poem Culloden that begins with:
Dark, dark was the day when we looked on Culloden
And chill was the mist drop that clung to the tree,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cccc deXe dada fdfd gbgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011111100 11101111001 010010110110 11101111101 11111111101110 1011010111101 1110110010010 111101001101 1011000101110 11011011011 11100100101100 111011001011 11111101111 11111010101 11101101001 1011011111101 1010110110010 110001101001 110011110110 1110100111 1010011010010 101001011001 1110010111110 101101111110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, and, there, as, you, woe, where, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, ah, and, where are repeated.
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