This is an analysis of the poem The Lofty Sky that begins with:

To-day I want the sky,
The tops of the high hills,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbccddXbaabbeeeebbXXaabbbbbbaaee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011101 010011 010111 010101 101011 1101111 101111 1101001 11111 111101 0010001 111011 110001 110101 0111111 110101 001001 11111 1110111 011111 101111 1100111 111101 110101 100111 111111 010101 110111 101101 111111 101101 111111 101111 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 889
  • Average number of words per stanza: 183
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

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