This is an analysis of the poem To A Mountain that begins with:
To thee, O father of the stately peaks,
Above me in the loftier light -- to thee, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdccceafcgdcahhdgibjbdXkkllXckfkXbcdacakccceciggfcifcdhccgkmiicdjibachckkcdmfaicX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 83,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111000101 01100100101 01001001101 1111010101 1111011111 0111010101 0101110111 1001010001 1111110111 0101110011 0111010101 1111000101 0111011001 0101111101 1111110011 0101001101 1101010111 0101110011 1111010001 0101011101 01010111011 1111010011 1101110101 1101010001 0111100100 0101011111 0101010101 0101000101 0100111101 0101010101 0101000101 0101000111 0101111111 01011000101 0101001111 1101110101 1101010101 0101010011 1111011101 11011101001 1101010101 1101010111 1101000100 1101010111 1101000101 0101010001 1101010101 1101110111 1111010011 1101110101 1111010101 1011011101 01110100101 1111010101 1101110101 0101010111 0111111101 0101011101 1101010111 10010001001 11011100111 0110010111 0111001101 1101110011 1101000101 01010001001 1111010101 0101110100 1101110101 1100010100 1100111101 0101011101 0111010001 0101010111 0111010101 0110010111 1111010101 0111011101 0100101101 10010100100 0111011111 1101110110 1101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3596
- Average number of words per stanza: 655
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, and, in, my, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whose, of, the are repeated.
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- summary of To A Mountain;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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