This is an analysis of the poem The Ancient Town Of Leith that begins with:
Ancient town of Leith, most wonderful to be seen,
With your many handsome buildings, and lovely links so green,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccde ccff ffcc XXXd aaaa ccgg ddhh gged iiaa ffccXccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011100001 01101010110111 1011011101011111 1010011010101 11111010100110101 11010010011001010 1110111010001 10111111110100 111101010010101010 1011101100101011 11101010111101 11001110011110101 011110010010100 10101111111100 11000010011001 10101011111101 0111101001000 01001111110110 1101010001101 111011001101 111010111100001 101111110011 11011001001 1001011101 00101001110011 00101011101010001 101011010101 11010101111 0101110011001 10111001001 00011101111 1110100111011 01101010101010001001 10100101011 111001000101100 1001000111101 110100100011010 110110001001010 11100111010 100100001011010 101011110111 1010101111101 01001000110101 10111001010101 11101000101101 11110111001 11100100101111 011111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, them, in, of, leith, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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