This is an analysis of the poem Elijah Browning that begins with:

I was among multitudes of children
Dancing at the foot of a mountain....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcXcXdedbadcXaafgehiihafeXgicXXi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101101010 101010010 011100111011 101101111 1010111011110 0110111010111 1110110110100 101001001110010 1100101011 111110100110 1110110010010 010101110010101 11001001111 11111111010 10110101010110110 1011111101 10111101 11101011101010 1111011111 101001011011 10101110101 1011010101 010010001001 111111101001 1111001 101100100010 1001001011 111100100 110111 1111 01011 110100 101001001001 10101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1451
  • Average number of words per stanza: 275
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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, i, me are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Elijah Browning;
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  • history of its creation;
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