This is an analysis of the poem Beautiful Balmoral that begins with:

Ye lovers of the picturesque, away and see
Beautiful Balmoral, near by the River Dee;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXX aaaa aabb bbaa bbaa aXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110001000111 100010110101 11010110101001 11011111001 101001101111 1010110111 10101100101 101100110101 1011111 10011101 101001011001 1001100011 101011011001 10111100110101 11001011011 010110011011 1110110100001 1010100101011 0010100001001 11111010101 11110001000111 10001010101100 101011101 11101010110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word dee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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