This is an analysis of the poem In The Highlands that begins with:
IN the highlands, in the country places,
Where the old plain men have rosy faces, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaXa bbabbXXX ccXdaaad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010001010 1011111010 101110 11 1010101110 1110001100 111010 111 1010111110 1011111010 101111 101 1110101010 1011111010 101010 1100 1011001110 1100101110 101010 11 11101010110 100100101110 101110 111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 326
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, only are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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