This is an analysis of the poem The Snowy Range, Colorado that begins with:

These are the monarch-mountains of the land,
The purple-wearers, almost infinite!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdacda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101110001 0101011100 01011101011 010010001101 1101010011 1111010101 1101011000 1011010101 010010101 1111010101 1101110111 1101000101 1110010101 010010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 598
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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.

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