This is an analysis of the poem To A Highland Girl (At Inversneyde, Upon Loch Lomond) that begins with:
. Sweet Highland Girl, a very shower
Of beauty is thy earthly dower!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccddeeccffgghhhhiii jjkkkkcckXbbXciiiXllmmccc nnnnkXjXoocXjjj kkkkiiXahhhhccnnn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,25,15,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110101010 01001101 110010011 11110111 11111111 11011101 01010111 01010101 01010101 11010101 01010111 11010001 11101101 11011101 11110001 010111001 11110111 11100101 11101100 11011111 11111101 01010111 11111101 11011111 01110111 10001111 100001100 11010101 01011111 001010101 110010000 11011101 01000101 01010100 11110101 11000111 11000111 010111101 01110100 01110101 01110101 010101001 11110111 11110101 11010101 11010101 11110101 11111100 11010101 01101101 01110111 01010100 11110111 11010100 11011101 00111111 11011011 11010100 11011101 11010110 11010101 110101001 11100101 11111101 11011101 01110011 110011111 11110101 11011110 01110101 01011111 11111111 11010101 11101111 11011101 11110101 01010101 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 709
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, thee, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, for, of, thy, as are repeated.
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