This is an analysis of the poem The Hills that begins with:
Behind my father's cottage lies
A gentle grassy height...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcb adedXd acfcXc ghbhfh afXfif bdbdfd aecece fgigXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 010101 11110101 1001001 11010111 010111 111001111 111101 01110101 111101 01100101 011101 01010111 100101 01011101 1010111 11011101 010111 111001111 110101 01100101 0101101 11010101 110101 11111101 0010001 10111111 011101 111111101 011001 101100101 010101 0101011 110101 10110101 010111 11110101 111101 01010101 111111 11011100 111101 11111101 011111 11110111 101111 10110111 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Hills;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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