This is an analysis of the poem The Blue Mountains that begins with:
Above the ashes straight and tall,
Through ferns with moisture dripping, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede fgfg XhXh cbcb ijij
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 1101010 11010111 1111010 11110101 0101110 010010111 11001010 11011101 1101110 01011111 1101100 01110001 11010010 11000101 1111010 11011101 1101010 01010111 1100010 10010101 0101010 01010101 0101010 110111001 1101010 01011101 11010010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Blue Mountains;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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