This is an analysis of the poem Vii. At A Village In Scotland.... that begins with:

O NORTH! as thy romantic vales I leave,
And bid farewell to each retiring hill, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacXcdeedff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010111 1111010101 1101010101 1001111111 1100010111 1101110101 011011101 1101010101 1101111111 11001010001 1010110101 0110010101 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 570
  • Average number of words per stanza: 101
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.

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