This is an analysis of the poem The Legends Of The Rhine that begins with:

Beetling walls with ivy grown,
Frowning heights of mossy stone;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXXbccddaA eXaaffgghhaA eeaaabbhhbaA ggffhhaa eeiibbaA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 1010101 1000101 1010001 1011100 1010100 10010101 1010101 10111010 10111110 1010001 0010001 1110101 1001100 1110101 1000101 1010001 1110101 1000101 1010101 1010101 10101001 1010110 0010001 1110101 1010111 1000101 1000101 1011101 1011101 1110101 1110101 1010101 1110101 1010011 0010001 1000101 1010101 1010011 1000101 1010101 1011101 1011101 10010001 11011101 11010101 11001101 01011101 11010101 11110101 0010101 0010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; of, and are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word rhine at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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