This is an analysis of the poem The Inauguration Of The Hill O' Balgay that begins with:

Beautiful Hill o' Balgay,
With your green frees and flowers fair,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaabacbcccdcXeeeddfbfdXXdddXdXaaeeXddXbbdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001110 01111101 1110111 100101 010101 101000110 1100101 1111010011 1101011011 01111 10101101101 101011001001 101111 1111001010 001110 1110110 1100001 100111101001 101001 10101 10101 1010010111 110010101 1001101101 001001001110 101001001110 0101100101 100101110010001 101010010111 110101001110 0111011101001 10101011110 11101100101 110101011101 011101011001 1111101111101 111100001001110 1111010110101 1001011010010101 010111000101110 101001010111 1110110110101 11101100010111 1110001010001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1853
  • Average number of words per stanza: 344
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, o', with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines balgay is repeated).

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