This is an analysis of the poem Inversnaid that begins with:

This darksome burn, horseback brown,
His rollrock highroad roaring down, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeaa ffff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101111 01010101 0110101001 11100111 01010011 11101001 001110110 011101010 10011001 10100110111 10101001 101001111001 11010101 011101001 110011011 1101101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; be, and are repeated.

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  • summary of Inversnaid;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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