This is an analysis of the poem Heard On The Mountain that begins with:

From Hugo's 'Feuilles d'Automne'.
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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabbXaaaXcXa dXaXeeffggXhiijj Xc hhkkdd llXmdd XgXggnnbbddd XXbbbbggbbXg XXjjXbbmmnnkkaadd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,16,2,6,6,12,12,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010100 11011101111001 10010100010001 11010001110101 11010001110101 11110011100100000 110111001011101 11111011100101 11010101110001 110001010001000 100111011010101 1100101010101100 11010001111111100 010111110101001 101001010101100 10010001110110 01001101010100 10111001010101 110100100010101 1000010010001 11010001010101 110101011010111 01001001010111 10000111110011 010110010111110 100101010110001 01010101010101 101101001000100 101010000011100000100 110101000100100 10100101100101 110101111101110 010111010100010 1001011110001001 100101010101001 110100011111001 111011010101001 011001000100101 1101101011100101 0101010101100 11001110010101 10010111011111 1001101001100101 100100101111000 01010101010101 11011000100100 1010101011001 01010101010101 10000101010101 110010101110111 101000111000101 11010101010101 11000100010101 111101110110011 1001011011110101 11111101101100 0101101010010100 11010111010101 100101011011101 101111000100011 0100100010001 110110001110001 11010100001101 11111001010111 011001011100111 110111010100100 010111111111010 100111011100000 100001010101000 101000100100100 01110010101010100 11100100111001 1011010101001101 110111101110101 11110101010111 11010111010101 1111010001110011 11110010110111 101101010101001 11010011010100 11011101011100 0101001010001 0101010001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 482
  • Average number of words per stanza: 83
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, its, with, to, of, that, like are repeated.

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

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