This is an analysis of the poem The Infinite that begins with:
This solitary hill has always been dear to me
And this hedge, which prevents me from seeing most of...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXcdebcdea X XcXXXXfffXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,1,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101011110101 101101101010 010010 1111111010011 10100101 1101001010100110 001111011101 11110110101 101010010010 101000101110101 10011101 0101000111 10100010101 1000 110111001 110111101 11001001110 1100101010000 101111011000 1001100001 101101101110 11111011110 10101111010 10001000101 1110001110100 1011001110 1101101110110 10001001101 11001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 380
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, e are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, e are repeated.
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