This is an analysis of the poem The that begins with:
The 'Bride' o' Leith swings out to sea,
Breasting the snow-white foam,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXb bXcacX deeeXe fdXdad afefdf eeXeee XdgdXdXgagaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010111101 100111 101010101 111101 011100101 110101 01010111 111100 11111111 110101 11010100 110101 010111101 110111 11011001 110101 0010010101 100101 1111110111 110111 111010100 1111101 111010101 111101 011110111 110111 111010101 010101 111011101 011101 111100101 111011 111100101 0010001 1011110111 10100101 1100110111 010111 110100101 110101 1010111110 110101 010111101 001011 11011111 0100111 111110101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there's, and, no, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines home is repeated).
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