This is an analysis of the poem Over The Hills that begins with:
Often and often it came back again
To mind, the day I passed the horizon ridge...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdacdXefXfegegaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011001101 01011100101 00110011101 1111011001 0101011001 0101011101 1101011101 1010101111 1111110100 1101111101 1101011001 1101010111 01110110101 0111110101 111110101 1011110101 00111111001 1001000101 1001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 800
- Average number of words per stanza: 161
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the are repeated.
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