This is an analysis of the poem Beautiful Crief that begins with:
Ye lovers of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief,
Take my advice, and visit the ancient town of Crieff;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXab ccab ccad aacc eeaa fegg hhee hhii hhaa XXjj ffii kXee abkkXadii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110001000110111 1101110010101 0100101011001 01111010010110100100 01010001010001101 10100101111101 01101011010101 111101011100 1010110101101 1010100100010011 11010100111 011110110110100101 010010100110101 1110111101001 011010010111010 110101010111 010010101001100001 01001010110111 1001010010110101101 101010001100010111 101010010110101 1100010110 100101011010111101 1001000101011 101110111 010010001001 010101010101 1010010110101 111101101010011 110100100100101 11001101101 11100100100101011 1110101101010 11110001111101 0111100100111001 10110101101 11110010100101101 111101110111 110111010101010 111111101010 01000010101110011 1010010100110 110000101011010011011 0010111110101 11100010110001 10100011000101 101101101100101 10100100010001011 11010010110101 0101001010110 1101011111101001 1010111011111 110010011000100101 011010110100101 111011110100111 010101101010010111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ye, and, make, to, there, they, 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, then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Beautiful Crief;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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