This is an analysis of the poem Recollection that begins with:
Do you remember the ol'
Isle o' Skye...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcbX dede ffff ghXh XgXg ieie XjXj gXgX fcfc iaX iX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001 111 10 1110001 01110111010 11111 111110001010 111101 10111101110 101011001 110111111010 111110 1110100100110 101010 10101010111111 1011111 101111111110 10101101 1111111011000 101111 11111111110 0011101 11011111001 110011001 001011101000 011101 001011011010110 1101101 10010101110 111101 110010101110 11001101 11001100111010 011111 110101001010 10101011 110101110010 011001 100010110110100 001 111 111001111101100 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', good are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The author used the same word or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Recollection;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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