This is an analysis of the poem A Mountain Gateway that begins with:
I know a vale where I would go one day,
When June comes back and all the world once more... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccd ebcXaebd ceafgfX de acXa gchXdehfac bXibaic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,7,2,4,10,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101111111 1111110111 0101010101 01010101001 0111100101 1101010111 1111111111 1011010111 11110001000 0101111111 1101000101 1001110101 0101000101 0110001101 10010100111 1001010001 1111001001 1101010101 1101010101 11010101100 1101100101 1011010111 1011010101 0101010101 1101110111 11110100111 110111111 1011010101 1001111101 1001110101 1101010111 0111011111 10000110101 1011011101 1101000101 1101010001 1011010111 0101110001 0111011111 1100110011 1110010101 0101010101 01010000101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, the are repeated.
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