This is an analysis of the poem The Height Of Land that begins with:

Here is the height of land:
The watershed on either hand...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcbXdefaggbbeheddii jhedkkleaeemmnallnaaebllaaMmekXldookkX akeAbhepmXkkmMhmpefepemlaXldnclmi AoaomhhdXaXhhhlldcmmmmdXmXe emXalmamdlXmXXcamXanaaelldmehmbnXnkjkX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,38,33,27,38,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 100101 01011101 110101 110100 01111101 01100110 10101010 01101 010101 111111110101 0101001011 010101 01010111 110111001 0100111110 110100101 1101110 1011 0101010101 110101010011 011101001011 1010011101 1011010111 010000100110 111110101 010010 10110110010 01011011 100111 01111111010 011111 0111 0101110101 1011101 1001000101 0101010 0111010101 011101111 11011101 0011010101 0111 01011000111 1001010101 10011 001101 10101 010101 0101000101 1101101 1101110 101101 1011000 110001001 01110110001 1111010101 1111001 111111 010011 1011000 111110001 1101010110 10110100110 0101000101 100101 101101 010000101110 11001111111 010101001010 010101000 1101011111 110001 110010101 0101000101 1101010101 1101100101 01000111001 11111110110 10101110111 0101011001 11010010101 0100010101 1001110101 0101010101 1101010101 1111110000 10110011101 1000110101 01001111111 10010101110 11110001010 01011100101 100111101011 0101000101 1001010001 1011 01000101 0111001 110101 1101010111 01110010101 11010101010 1011010101 10101100010 100111001 1001010101 101101000101 11010110001 1100110101 010010101001 1010100110 10001001010 11010101110 0001110010 1100110111 01000101111 1111001000 110100101 111011110010 0100010011 01010110010 1101101111 11001100010 1100010001 10101010001 0101010101 1001010101 1101000101 1100011110 0011111101 0101010111 110101010 01011101100 11110110100 1101110110 010011111 01010110010 0101000100 0011000010010 0111010111 1101010111 1101011101 10001010100 11110111110 01010100101 100111010100 110111001110 1011110010 00110111111 01011101010 11001100011 1101100110 1101010010010 11110101110 10100110111 0111011101 11010011111 0101011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1210
  • Average number of words per stanza: 223
  • Amount of lines: 157
  • 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; of, and, noble, to, with are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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