This is an analysis of the poem The Mountain Squatter that begins with:
Here in my mountain home,
On rugged hills and steep, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Ababcccc dede abAb fcfc gXgh hbhb eieI jhjh gfgf bibI eheh ibib kbkb hbhB dhdh iiii hlhl mbmB fkfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 110111 111111 110001 1100011 110011 111101 010101 110101 111101 110111 110111 111101 110111 101101 010111 011111 010111 010101 111111 010101 010110 111101 111111 110111 110001 110111 010101 110001 111101 011101 010101 110101 110101 011101 100101 110101 111101 110111 011101 110101 110011 110101 010101 110101 110111 011101 111101 110111 011101 110101 110101 110111 110101 011101 110101 111101 111111 0100111 110001 110101 110101 110101 111101 111101 010101 111101 110111 111101 110101 111101 111011 110111 110111 111101 110001 010101 011101 10000101 1101000
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; i, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words their, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Mountain Squatter;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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