This is an analysis of the poem The Inauguration Of The University College that begins with:
Good people of Dundee, your voices raise,
And to Miss Baxter give great praise;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd Xbee ccff gghh iibX jjhh hhXj bbii iibb hhkk kkaaXbbii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0100011101 10110111 01111101 01111001001001 11100011 110101101 1110011001 0110101101 11011001000101 101010010110001 10100010001000101 001001011001111 10101001010010 10110110 101011110011 1101101101 1001100010011011101001 101001001001101 11110101010100010 110100100101001010 01011011001101011 1110100101101 1110001001001 101110010100100 010011010100001 10111111010001101 10100011111010 11001110010 110101100001011110 110010111010 011001011011 11101111011111 010000111110001 010100111011001 11110101101011 111101000101001 1111011010010 1110101010010 1010001001001 1101010010101 101110001101 10010010111 1111010101 101001011001111 11001011010001 1001011101 111010011001000110 1110001100100110 11110010110011 10101111001 11100101011 11101010110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (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, in, of, to, knowledge are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, for are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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