This is an analysis of the poem A Mountain Station that begins with:
I bought a run a while ago,
On country rough and ridgy, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXabab cXcXdbdb eXeXbbbb bdbdafaf gXgXhdhX eieijdjX Xd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 1101110 11001111 010100 01010101 1001010 01110101 1101010 11110101 0101111 01010111 1101011 01110101 0111010 10110101 1101010 11010101 1101110 01010101 0101010 11111101 1101010 110001101 1101010 10110101 0111010 0100101 1101010 10111111 1101110 1101101 1101010 10010111 110100 11010101 110100 11000101 1111010 01010111 0101010 11011101 1101110 11010101 1101110 10110101 1111010 11010011 1101010 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i'll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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