This is an analysis of the poem Beautiful Balmerino that begins with:
Beautiful Balmermo on the bonnie banks of Tay,
It's a very bonnie spot in the months of June or May;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaX bbcX ddaa ddbb XcaX eeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001001010101 00101010010111 010010101101001 0100001000110 1010100010110101 11001111110 101110011001 01000111100101 11100100101 100101010001 11010110001 1001010001001111 110010100101 1001010111 1011010010101 101010101010001 110101001000 101000101001001 1100101101001 110011010101 111010110001 00101110101 101101101 1110101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; of, trees, and, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words which, and are repeated.
The author used the same word which at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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