This is an analysis of the poem Blue Ridge that begins with:

Up there on the mountain road, the fireworks
blistered and subsided, for once at eye level:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcddedcbcXfgfdchceaijkgeiehga fahcchXXflhddifidldamc fmgXknfhgacnaljikdcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,22,20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101011 101010111110 1001110100010 0101010110010101 00110011101 1111010101 0111000001 101001010 1111111100 10010110101011 0100110101110 010111111 010010100010 11010100 1101 00110 010101101010 11010010101 1111011101 111010110110 111101 11010100111 1011010101010 001110100110110 10101111 10011110 0010100010111 0101010101010 11100110110 11001 0111010 110111011 001010111110 100010110001 10001001011 10100010 11101111 1101010001 0100101010110 1011101 010101010 10101010001 1111011010101 1001101010 100000111 1101110 111010010 0001011111 10011011 1101011 11111111 1010101010 01111100100 01111010101 01100101110 1100010101 1110010101 0101011101 011110010 101101010 0111101110 001010 0101 0111101001 01010011111 0100100100101 1111001101 1100010101110 110010010101 110100011 10101100101 1101100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1008
  • Average number of words per stanza: 165
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, his are repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Blue Ridge;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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