This is an analysis of the poem Beautiful North Berwick that begins with:
North Berwick is a watering-place with golfing links green,
With a fine bathing beach most lovely to be seen;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bbcc ddee ffcc aagg ffff eehh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11000100101011 001101110001 1101100101010 11001011001011000 01001001001010001 01110100010 10101101001 10101001110101001 0101101010100 1110010010100 100100101010110 1010101101010 1101011111 111010010001 11000110101 110010101110101 01010101010001 00011101010111 11110001001101001 110101110110111 1111000010100101 11101000110111001 100101000010001 11010101011101 101101101001 1110001001 1101010101 10101010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (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; and, 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 words the, then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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