This is an analysis of the poem Brodie Castle that begins with:
The following sonnet on Brodie Castle Nairnshire, Scotland, was written
by my venerable Uncle, Thomas McIntyre, of St. Catherines, and father...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXcdceX ffca ddgg ddbb bbffXggee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010110101010110 11100010101110110110 01111111100010001001 101111100110000100 1100110111110010110 101110010001000001010 110110000110111001 010101011100110110 10001001101100101 0111001000100 101011110 100010001010 10000100110 101001110 101001011 111111101 1101111101 0001000101 111111101 110111011 1001001011 11011001 111010111 1010101111 1111111011 100111100 1111110101 1001111101 111111101 11000100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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