This is an analysis of the poem Ben Nevis: A Dialogue that begins with:
There was one Mrs. Cameron of 50 years of age and the fattest woman in all Inverness-shire who got up this Mountain some few years ago -- true she... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a BXXccccddeXdXffccggdd a GffhhiijjbXfX Bkkddllg GgbbeccfgjjXcceebbffccaaffmmcccddddccXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,21,1,13,8,39,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010001001101010011011111010110011110101111011101101001011110111010011010101011010101010101001010111100010111101 101 01111101110 11111101110 0111001111 1111011101 0111011100 0111011101 0110010111 1111010011 11010100011 1111110110 0101011101 01010111100 0101110101 1101010101 0111010111 1111011101 1111111101 1110111101 1011011011 1101010111 10101111011101010011110001101001010101010110011101 110 1101011111 0111000100 1011111001 10010101101 11110101001 1101010101 0111110101 0100111111 1111001111 0101010101 0111111111 1111 101 1101111111 1101001101 1011110001 1100110101 1111010101 1101111111 1101111101 110 1111111111 11111101001 1111111111 1111111111 1111011101 0101110111 0111010101 1111111101 1111011101 0101011111 1111010101 1101111111 1101101101 1111111101 1101111101 0101110111 1101110111 1101000101 1101110111 10011000101 1001011111 0111011101 1101011011 0111011101 0101110101 0101110111 0101111111 1111010011 1111 110101 0101011101 1101010101 1101011111 1010010111 1101011101 1101110111 110101011010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 561
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; she, and, mrs, of, to, not, i, night, crag, red, must, then are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, red are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines day is repeated).
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