This is an analysis of the poem On Being Given A Piece Of Edelweiss Before Visiting Switzerland that begins with:

THINE everlasting mountains and their snows
And awful silence, floweret, know I not;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXXccXdeXdded
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010111 11010100111 1111001101 0101111101 10110101101 1 0101111101 11001011101 10110010110 010010110001 1101111001 1 1001010101 1110111111 1111011011 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 652
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; i is repeated.

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