This is an analysis of the poem Beautiful Village Of Penicuik that begins with:
The village of Penicuik, with its neighbouring spinning mills,
Is most lovely to see, and the Pentland Hills;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXXc dddd eeff gghh ccaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010010000100101 01100110101 1100100101111 11100110101101 1101111001 1100010100100 0111011000100100 011101101011001 1011010111010101 1101100011 1101101011001 01111110101 11010010011010110 110111110110 10010110111 010011001010101 1110110100101 11000101011001 11001100110110 101001011011 111000100100101 111010101 11001010101 11011001101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (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, of are 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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