This is an analysis of the poem The Railway Bridge Of The Silvery Tay that begins with:
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay!
With your numerous arches and pillars in so grand array... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaaaaabB AXcc AaXbB AaabB AbaabB AXaXabB AXaXabB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,5,5,6,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100111001001 011001011001101 11101011001 0011100001 01010001 1011000000101 1100001 1101101001 100111001001 111010000101 011010010001 11111101110101 100111001001 01000011 1110110010101 1010001 1101101001 100111001001 1011010101001 110010010101 1001110001 1101101001 100111001001 1010001011110 1010111001 01000101001 110001 1101101001 100111001001 11110011100 11111 1111000010110 01001001 1110110001 1101101001 100111001001 10100010111 01010100011 110100010011 1001001 111000001 1101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word beautiful at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word green at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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