This is an analysis of the poem A New Year's Resolution To Leave Dundee that begins with:
Welcome! thrice welcome! to the year 1893,
For it is the year I intend to leave Dundee,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbccXXaaddXaaaccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101100011 100011010101 100010101 1111101 100101111 010010111 111100 00101111111 1111111011 11101100010010001 1001110001 100101111101 1111111100101 0101010001 010100111001 01010111011 111110001 11010111 110110100101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 832
- Average number of words per stanza: 152
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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