This is an analysis of the poem Broughty Ferry that begins with:
Ancient Castle of Broughty Ferry
With walls as strong as Londonderry;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb cccccc ddcc Xdeecc caccc cccc ffggccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,4,6,5,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101001010 011111010 11011 110111010101 000111101 101000101 010100111 10110001 01010010101 1110110101 01101001 0111011101 1010111 01110111101 111010101 001001001001 10101110 0101011010101 010011110101 110111011011 111101111 1110100100001001 010010100110001 0010101010100 10011001001010001 1101010110101 1010100110001001 10100011100001 0011111011 1101101101 0010101010101 11100101 1010110110 0101001001111 10010100110001 11011101 010101110011 0010110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; to, and, of are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word tay at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Broughty Ferry;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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