This is an analysis of the poem Balmoral Castle that begins with:
Beautiful Balmoral Castle,
Most handsome to be seen,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb XXcAC XXdXXXCAC XbXbCaC XcdcXCAC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,9,7,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001010 110001 10100100100 1101 111101 10111 10001 1101010 101101 1101010 001001 101001001 01100 10101010 0100110 10110001 1101010 101101 11010101 011100001 10111111 010101110101 10110001 11001010 101101 111101 11011101 01110100 1110101 11010100 10110001 1101010 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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