This is an analysis of the poem Songs From The Beggar’s Opera: Air Xvi-“over The Hills, And Far Away” that begins with:

Mac. Were I laid on Greenland’s coast,
And in my arms embraced my lass,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXdddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111101 10110111 1010101 11010111 1001111001 11010111 1110101 111101100 111111101 1010011111 10011101 1010011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 518
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and is repeated.

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