This is an analysis of the poem An Ode To The Hills that begins with:

AEons ago ye were,
Before the struggling changeful race of man... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbbdbede bfbfefegfX XehebXbidX jajahihkik bibijijbib XdXXlmlgmg gdgdgggngo cdadegefXf ididioigng ojojgkgeke pipiegelgl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 10110 010100100101 1001010101 01011101001 111101 10110101001 110010100001 110111011 0101010101 0111 1001111 11001010011 01110011101 1100011101 111101 1100010011 1101110101 11001111001 0111001101 01100 101100 0101011101 1111011101 1111010111 111101 0111011101 11001010001 1101010011 1001011011 11001 011101 10110011010 10010111001 11110101010 1001001 01001111001 1100110111 1011011101 1111110101 0101 111101 1111011100 1111111101 1101011101 101101 0111011101 0111011001 11011010101 1101110101 0101 010001 1101010111 100111100 1101010100 011111 1011110011 1001011101 0101110001 1001010101 0101 011001 11110011001 0101110111 0101110111 110101 11010010011 01001010101 1101011100 11001010111 1111 111001 01010101001 0101010100 01111100100 011111 0100010111 1101010101 1011010101 1101011000 0111 010101 0100111101 0101001101 1001011101 010011 1011110111 1011001101 1100010101 1010010100 0101 110111 1111110101 1101111101 11110011001 1101101 11010111011 10110101001 1101010001 1101111111 0111 110111 1100010101 011001101 1101010101 110001 0111011101 0111000111 1100011111 11010010001 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 373
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 110
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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