This is an analysis of the poem Blue Mountain Pioneers that begins with:

The dauntless three! For twenty days and nights
These heroes battled with the haughty heights;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbeeffggfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101110111 1101000101 1101000111 1101110101 1101011101 1101000111 11111111110 11110111110 1101011101 1101010101 1001011101 1101011001 1101010001 1111110111 0100010111 0111011101 110010100111 1101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 842
  • Average number of words per stanza: 146
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; by is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word their is repeated.

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