This is an analysis of the poem The Mountains that begins with:
The Mountains
What ails you, Ocean, that nor near nor far,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcbc dede XfXf Ghbhb fifi cgcg gcgc AdjXj gcgc fkfk lklk cfcf Gbhbh Abhbh gkgk GXafa gmgm fafa kaka kakaXfmfm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,5,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,5,5,4,5,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010 1111011111 1101011101 1011110001 1011 01011100111 01000110101 1111001101 0111 11011100111 1101011101 11110010011 0101 01 100111110001 1011110011 1101010111 0101 11011100001 1101110111 10100111001 1101 1001110101 1101111111 1101111101 0101 0111001101 0111110011 1101010111 1111 010 1101101101 1101101101 1100111100 1011 1111010001 1111011101 1010011101 0111 11010100101 1101010111 0100111101 1101 1101011101 0101110011 1100110101 10011 1111111111 0001010001 01010011001 01001 01 1110110101 0100110111 1100110011 10001 010 1011010011 1111110101 1101010111 0101 1101011101 1111000111 1101110110 1101 01 1101110110 1101010101 1101000111 1101 1110111111 1101011111 0001000111 1111 1101011101 1101111011 1111010011 1011 1101001111 1100110111 1101110101 0101 1101010001 11010010001 1100011101 10011 1011010001 10001110001 0101010101 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; your, i, or, and, all, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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