This is an analysis of the poem Address To Kilchurn Castle, Upon Loch Awe that begins with:
CHILD of loud-throated War! the mountain Stream
Roars in thy hearing; but thy hour of rest... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdcXdefagcacXgcahXbbiXbgbgeXigcfhidgXic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 43,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010101 10110111001 0111110011 1101111111 01001010111 11011111011 1111000101 1011111001 1101011101 11010111010 1111010101 1001011111 1011001101 110011101 1111101101 1111010011 01000101010 1101010101 1111010001 00010010001 0101001101 111110001000 1101110101 01010011101 1101010111 1001110001 1101011111 0111010111 0101010101 1110110101 101011001010 10001000100 0100010111 0001000101 0111001100 1101110011 0101000101 1011010101 0001000101 1101010101 1100010001 0101010100 11010010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1837
- Average number of words per stanza: 320
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; thy, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
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