This is an analysis of the poem Rothesay Bay that begins with:
FU' yellow lie the corn rigs
Far doun the braid hillside; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXXcXC XXXXXc aC deXeXcac XXXcdcXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,2,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 110111 0001011 100110 1001110 110111 10011010 1011001 1111011 111110 1111110 111101 1101110 110101 11111001 1011001 00101110 110101 10101011 111101 101110010 110111 101111101 1111001 10111110 1011111 1111011 111100 111101010 011111 101011010 1011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word bay at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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