This is an analysis of the poem Attadale, West Highlands that begins with:
A black and glassy float, opaque and still,
The loch, at furthest ebb supine in sleep,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddceefeef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010111 0111010101 01010001001 0111010101 10111101001 01111101001 01011101001 11000111001 0111110101 0101010101 0101111101 10001110101 1001110111 1100100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 655
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a are repeated.
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