This is an analysis of the poem Edinburgh that begins with:
Beautiful city of Edinburgh!
Where the tourist can drown his sorrow... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccdd bbeefff eeebbbffgggghh dbhhffiiXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,14,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001001000 101011010 11011001111 10010101 01000101 11101100111 1101101 0110010111 110001000100001 0010011111 1110101 11101010011001 10101111111 110100011101 1111100001 11110100111101 101010010100111 111110010100101 1111001111100001 01000010110101 110011101 101010101001 10110101 110101110011 00110100101 010010101101 1110100100001001 1001010101010111 11101101110011 111101010001 110001001011101 10110101 0110111 10101011 100100101 100100100001001 1101101101 1111111 11110101001010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 448
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is 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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- summary of Edinburgh;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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