This is an analysis of the poem Meeting Among The Mountains that begins with:

The little pansies by the road have turned
Away their purple faces and their gold, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaba cded fghg aagX dggg ijaj XhXh dfcc cece ciei dfbcXghhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010111 0111010111 110110101001 11010101101 0101111101 0101110101 100011101010 1110110111 110101001110 1101010111 111110101 110111011101 11010101010 01010111101 0110110110101 100111101110 01001010111 010010110101 0101111101 10101011101 10010101010 11010101111 10110101010 10110010100 11011010101 111110010101 011101001111 10111001101 11001111101 110110100100 101000101110 1110010101 1010010100101 110110100101 110010101001 0111111101 1111100101 101010101111 0011110101001 110010100001 100100101001 11101111100 0101100101 100100100101 1111100101010 10110011111 1101111101 1101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, one, moment, of, in, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, one are repeated.

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