This is an analysis of the poem How The Old Mountains Drip With Sunset that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXXX aXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 101101011 101010 101101010 101010 101101010 101010 110100010 11101 1101011100 10101 00100000000000 1010100 101111010 10101 101101110 101010 10010011100 111010 101001010 0010000 1101010100 1000010 1000010100 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; how is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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