This is an analysis of the poem Loch Katrine that begins with:
Beautiful Loch Katrine in all thy majesty so grand,
Oh! how charming and fascinating is thy silver strand!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb CCAAdddX CCAAbcee CCAAXXff CCAAggff CCAAaaffXCCAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,8,8,8,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011001110011 11101101001101 11001110110001 01001100111001 101011000101 1110100110101 111011010110 00101101111 111101011111 1101001100101 101000100101 111010101101 101011000101 1110100110101 111011010110 00101101111 0101101001100001 11010101001101 111110101011101 001010101001 101011000101 1110100110101 111011010110 00101101111 110001010101 101010010001001 100110001101 10100100010111 101011000101 1110100110101 111011010110 00101101111 1001101010101 1010101001001 11101011001001 001011101 101011000101 1110100110101 111011010110 00101101111 010111110110101 1101011101 101111100101 001011101001 101011000101 1110100110101 111011010110 00101101111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 348
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; and, thy, to, its, on 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines grand is repeated).
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