This is an analysis of the poem Bonnie Dundee In 1878 that begins with:
Oh, Bonnie Dundee! I will sing in thy praise
A few but true simple lays,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccddeeeffggdXffbbeebbbbcccaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11001101011 0111101 0101011000011 1100010111011 1110111001101 11011101 11101011101 01001010110101 100110001 10101010111111 1011000111010110101 1110011110101 1110101111001 11110011 10110001 1100111101 01010100 11101101 111100101 1111101 1010101001001 110101110001 01000100011101 1010001 10101100010001 110101110001 1011000010001 11110101111101 10100011 101000110111111 11001110111 1010101111101 1101110100111001 1001010111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1609
- Average number of words per stanza: 291
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; can, and, to, most are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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