This is an analysis of the poem An Address To The New Tay Bridge that begins with:
Beautiful new railway bridge of the Silvery Tay,
With your strong brick piers and buttresses in so grand array,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaaaaaaaaabbAcaaacaddbB eeaaaabB Aaaaffbb bgbbaagbB hhaaiibbbbB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,8,8,9,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001111001001 01111110001101 1111101011011 1011101001 11110111111 011101011100011 110111001 011111001 10100111101 11010100100111 0111011101 10110110101001 1001111001001 011001101111 1000101010101 1101110010101 11010100100111 1110101110011 11000101001 10010010101 10011011 101100001 110110101001 1100111111 1010111001 1110010101111001011001 101010101001 111111110101 011111111 01110100001 110110101001 1001111001001 1110111001101 11110010010101 11110101 0011111 01101111101 1101000001 11011101001 111011110001 1011010100101 111110010001 101110101 10110101011001 011101011100011 111010010101 10110001 110110101001 01101011101 1001000101101 0111001001 01111011001 010111001101101 1110110011 1111010101101 110100101000101101 011110001001111 111010110110001 110110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 565
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, railway, by, thou, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word green at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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