This is an analysis of the poem On A Hill-Top that begins with:
BEARDED with dewy grass the mountains thrust
Their blackness high into the still grey light, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bccb deed fggf bhhb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010101 1101000111 100011101001 01010010101 1001011111 1111110101 1001010101 01011011111 0101011101 0101011110 10010000111 0101110101 1011011111 1111110101 1011010101 0111110101 1001011101 1111110101 1101100111 1001000101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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