This is an analysis of the poem To E. that begins with:
The mountains in fantastic lines
Sweep, blue-white, to the sky, which shines... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab cccb aaXa ccca ddde aaae dddc fXfc ccca cXca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000101 11100111 11110101 0111 11011011 11001101 1101111 0101 110111110 111111110 01001100 0101 11111101 11110111 10101101 0101 110010101 11110111 10010101 1111 10110101 11010101 10110101 0101 11010111 10110111 11110111 1101 11110111 0101010110 11111001 1111 11111101 11110101 11111111 0101 11010101 11010100 011100111 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; blue is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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- summary of To E.;
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