This is an analysis of the poem The Scottish Engineer that begins with:
With eyes that searched in the dark,
Peering along the line, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcb dede ceccEfe caccXfa egeg bfbfcf gfhhfbbf bbbeeX aeaebbE eiei hXhcff cjfjfcccf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,7,7,4,6,8,6,7,4,6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0111001 100101 10110101 100100100 10110110101 1011101 111001001 10101101 111001101 100111 1010101 101101 10100100111 100100101 1001001 101110101 1000001 1010111 10101001 1000100101 101111111 1011110 1100110111 110101 10100111 10100101 1010101 10100101 1010111 00110101 1011001 1111101 101100101 111101 10111011 101101 1111110111 10010111 110111 0010110111 010010101 100111 1000111 0001001 101001 11110101 00111011101 10010100 110101 1001101 101101 100101 100101 1011001 1001001 100101 100111 101111 1010101 1001001 0101010 11110111 1011001 1010010101 100100101 101101 111101 100101 100101 110101 1111100101 1010111101 110100101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, of, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, never, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word engineer at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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