This is an analysis of the poem Mountains that begins with:
Rifted mountains, clad with forests, girded round by gleaming pines,
Where the morning, like an angel, robed in golden splendour shines;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaa aaddeeff eegghhii bbaajjaa iikkiicc eeaallbb eeccaafX aaaXeejj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101011101 101011101010101 1001010101010101 1010101110111001 101011101010101 101011101011101 111010001011101 101111101111101 101110101010101 1110101010000101 10111010010100101 101010101010101 101110101011101 111010101010101 101011001010101 101010101010101 100011101001111 111011101000111 1110101010011101 111110101010101 101011111010111 101010101011111 111010101010101 101010101010111 111010101011101 111010101011011 111010101010111 1010100101010101 1010101110101001 101110100010001 101110101011101 10101010001010001 101011101001101 100011101010101 1000101001010101 111111001010101 100011101010111 101010101110111 101011101011111 101110101010101 10010101010001001 111010001111100 1110111011100101 1111101010100101 111111101010101 101110101001101 101010101011101 101010111011101 1110101001100101 101010101010001 001111001010101 1011101001011111 101010101011101 101011101011101 1010101010101001 0011101010111010 1010101010100101 101010101010111 101110101011111 101011101010101 101010101110101 101010101010111 111010101010101 101010101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 513
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, yearning, for, oh, i, of, there, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words yearning, oh, and, telling, there, so are repeated.
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