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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