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

Beautiful Monikie! with your trees and shrubberies green
And your beautiful walks, most charming to be seen:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccdd eXeedd ccee ffeX eeXe ggeeXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,6,4,4,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1001001111001 111001110001 10100111010001 0111111001 1001011101 110101000111 011101110101 1111001010101001 10100110010101 111010101 101101001001 1101100110 101011101101 101011101 111101001001 11001100011101 110011010011 110001101011001 1011100101011 1111110101 110111101111 01011001111 10010001111 11001010101100 10011001111101 101010111001001 001011100010101 011010101010101 110110101001 1011010110101 0111010110011101 100101010100101 1100010001010 101010010010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • 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; beautiful, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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