This is an analysis of the poem Bonnie Kilmany that begins with:
Bonnie Kilmany, in the County of Fife,
Is a healthy spot to reside in to lengthen one's life.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb c ddeedXff c ggee c hhdd c Xdbb c iidX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,8,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10100001001 00101001001011 01001001010101 0100010011011 10 1101001101 1101010001 1101101 001010011011 10101000101001 0010111100 1010100101001 101100110101 10 1011101101 110101001111 0100100101 101000101011 10 110101101011 0100111011101 111111011 1010010101101 10 1101111011 1011011111 1010011111 10010001011 10 100101101101 011110010101 101010011011 01101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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