This is an analysis of the poem Monadnock Through The Trees that begins with:

Before there was in Egypt any sound
Of those who reared a more prodigious means ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba ccdeed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 0111010101 0111010101 1011010111 1111110101 10001110001 0101011101 1101010101 0110010101 1101010111 1100011111 0101011101 1111110111 1100011101 0100110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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; we is repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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