This is an analysis of the poem The Botanist's Vision that begins with:
The sun that in Breadalbane's lake doth fall
Was melting to the sea down golden Tay,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXacdcccd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01101000111 1100011101 1011010101 1000010111 1111010111 10010101101 0111100100 1011011111 01101000101 0111010011 0111111111 0111111101 1101011101 0101101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 600
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
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