This is an analysis of the poem The Mountain Cemetery that begins with:
With their harsh leaves old rhododendrons fill
The crevices in grave plots' broken stones....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXabb cdecfd befbfe ghbgah XcdXfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111110001 0100011101 0101010101 1001010111 0101010101 1101010011 01010101001 1101010101 0101011101 0111010101 00101010101 0111111101 11001011101 0101111101 1001011001 0100010001 1101110001 01001001101 1111011111 11001110101 0101010111 1101111101 0101011101 1101110001 1100110011 1101110101 0101110101 1110000101 0101110101 1111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, and, what, to, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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