This is an analysis of the poem The Hills Of Youth that begins with:

Once, on the far blue hills,
Alone with the pine and the cloud, in those high still places; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXabcbc dcdcbebe fefeghgh Xfafadfdf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 01001101011110 01001001101001 1011111001010 111001101110 1111001111001 111101101110 1101101 1101001 00100111101110 100110100111 1101100111010 110101101010 0101110100111 1100100111010 01001001 111011 00110111101110 11101000101111 10101011101110 111010011010110 100101110101 0111011101010 10100101 11111 01101001011010 01010111101 101110010001010 1001101101011 111101100111 1110101001111 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 408
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words alone, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word once at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Hills Of Youth;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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