This is an analysis of the poem Earlier Poems : Sunrise On The Hills that begins with:
I stood upon the hills, when heaven's wide arch
Was glorious with the sun's returning march,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeccffgghh iiaajjbbcckk ccllbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,12,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010111011 11000010101 11010111 11010111 0101011101 1101110101 10110101 11010101 11001000101 1011110101 11010111 01110111 0101110101 1011010101 11010101 11000101 1100010101 0101010101 11010101 11010111 1101011101 0101000101 110010101 01000101 1100010101 1011110111 11000101 11110111 11000010111 11101000101 01111101 01011101 0111010101 1101011101 10011111 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 491
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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