This is an analysis of the poem Beautiful Aberfoyle that begins with:
The mountains and glens of Aberfoyle are beautiful to sight,
Likewise the rivers and lakes are sparkling and bright;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff aaff ddaa ggff hhhc hcff iiff Xidd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010110100110001 1101011110011 10101001010001 11011001001101 010010101001 0111110111 111010100101 1100100111 010101001010010 00111010110 101010011101 10010011111 10100110101 110110101 0100001111 10101101100101 10101101110111 101100110010011 0001000010100001 111110111011 011111110001 10010111101 1101010101110 101010110101001101 10101001110 11100100100 01001011010001000 10101101001 1111010100100 1001010001001 1101110101001 1010100100101 11010010010011001 11100001010100101 101010110 10110101 101001011010100 111011100101 110010010110111 10101010001001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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, there, water, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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