This is an analysis of the poem A Descriptive Poem On The Silvery Tay that begins with:

Beautiful silvery Tay,
With your landscapes, so lovely and gay,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AaabbbXXXaaaaaaccaaddaaAaacaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001001 011111011 0111011001101 110100011110011 1011101001 1010101101 1011101000101001 1010011 001001 11011 1100111111 001001 001001 1001001001 11000010101101 11100000100001 10110111011111 110111 1010111 101010101 00010111 1110011 0101001001001 1001001 1010111 111011101 110001010101 1110101011111101101 0101001000101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 212
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; beautiful, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tay is repeated).

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