This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet On An Edelweiss that begins with:

Where huge rock buttresses bear up the clouds,
With all their floating reservoirs of rain;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabbccXbddee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111001101 0111010101 1011010110 010100111001 0101011101 0101011101 1101010100 0101110100 11011001010 1111010101 10001011111 1001110001 0111010101 1101100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
  • Average number of words per stanza: 101
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of is repeated.

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