This is an analysis of the poem Cliffs Of Scotland that begins with:
Sixteen Americans who died on the Tuscania are
buried at the water's edge at the base of the rocky...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXX bcbbc dedde fgffg ahaah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010011101001 10101011010010 110101101 1010101 1000101 1110101 1110101 0010011 1010101 1010111 10011010 10111010 1110101 1010111 1010101 1001101 10101001 1111101 1010101 1111111 1011111 1010101 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; at is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word cliffs is repeated.
The author used the same word cliffs at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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