This is an analysis of the poem The Hill-Top that begins with:
Alone upon my hill-top,
After the ravelled rains,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaa XbXb acXc acac adXd aeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111 1001001 1101010 110101 1011110 110101 10101111 111101 0101010 110101 1011111 010101 0101010 1101001 1101011 010101 1101010 010111 110010011 1100101 0101110 010111 1101110 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; with, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, between are repeated.
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