This is an analysis of the poem Beautiful Edinburgh that begins with:
Beautiful city of Edinburgh, most wonderful to be seen,
With your ancient palace of Holyrood and Queen's Park Green,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd aaaa aaee ddff ccgg aagg ccgg aahh ccee ggee ggXa iiggXggcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10010010001100001 01101001001111 1110100100110 110011010110 0110010000100101 11010001100110 01001000101101 10110000011111 101001000101 11011010100011 1010101010110001 1010001001111 100010110001 01011101011001 111001101 101000110110011 1111000100101 1011010101001 1010111101010110 111001001001001000 11101111101 110001010101 10100001011010001 10100100101111 110010001100001 10101001111011001 11110001 01001001101 011001111101 0100010110011 1001011101111 010110110100001 101111001010001 001001111001 1001001010001001 1010100101111 01001010011 1101000100101 1010010001011 011110101011 1110110001 1011000010011 111010110111 01011110010111 1111000111 1001000110111 00101011011110101 1100101001111 01001001000110111 101010111001 10101100101 110101000110011 01010001100011 1110111110111 111001001000111 11101100010110
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- 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, they, ye, i, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, which are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Beautiful Edinburgh;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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