This is an analysis of the poem The Mountain Heart's-Ease that begins with:
By scattered rocks and turbid waters shifting,
By furrowed glade and dell,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gdgd XbXb agag cXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101010 110111 010011111110 110001 010011101010 110111 11110100010 110101 01010001010 110101 10011001110 011101 10010110010 110101 11110101010 110001 11010001010 010101 11010101010 010101 11010101110 111101 11010101010 11111 11110011010 111110 11010100010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word by is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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