This is an analysis of the poem Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story - Part V. that begins with:

Said the high hill, in the morning: 'Look on me--
'Behold, sweet earth, sweet sister sky, behold... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccdeeddcXafecegXfhedeh ijdXXgcXbfX fafaiXiX agagdedX iiiieeeX dadacecX fXcfbebbjXkflkXgdXecXelXXieceegXcbfXbbfdXbcXXXXXcXcXbcXXbXXeffdXeceeediXbgfcecdiebcflcXcXaibiXacbflX lllladdX lllladda X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,11,8,8,8,8,100,8,8,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10110010111 1011110101 1111111111 1100111101 1110111110 1101011111 1011010001 1011010101 1100010101 10101011101 1111011100 1101110101 1101011101 1011001111 1111010101 1111110101 1111010111 1101011101 1111011101 11001011101 0111010101 1101110111 011010111 1111010101 1101111101 1100010101 1111111100 1101110101 1111010001 11110110001 1101110011 1111010101 1101011101 1001010001 1001011011 110010101 110101 11111111 110110 11110101 010101 11111101 011011 11110111 010101 11001101 111101 11001101 110001 11011101 011011 11010101 010101 01110001 010101 11010101 110101 01010101 001011 11000101 1101011 11001101 0101101 11010101 011111 01010011 011011 1001110101 1101010111 1101010101 0011110101 0101010001 1011011101 0101010001 1111010101 10111011111 1011110101 1101010101 1101111101 1011011101 1001011101 1101110101 1101100101 1111110101 11001100010 11011010111 1101010001 110101110101 1111010101 1001110101 000101110101 11010110010 1110011101 11011111111 1101101111 0101001101 0101011101 0101010101 111011101010 11010110001 1101011101 111111101 1111010101 11010110111 110010100101 1101010101 11110101001 1111110101 11011010101 1111011101 11010111010 11011110010 1101110101 1101110111 1101011101 1101011101 11010111010 1101010111 1101010001 1101111101 1001110111 1111110111 1111110101 110010101 0101110011 1000011111 1111010111 1101011101 1101110111 1111011101 1101111101 11110100111 10010010101 1001010101 1001010001 1011010001 1111010101 11001010101 1111010101 1100011101 1101000101 1111111101 1111001111 1111011101 1011110101 11010111100 1101010111 1111110101 1010010111 1101010101 1101000101 1111010101 1101010001 1111010101 1101111101 1101010101 1111110101 1101111101 110111101 1101010101 11010111001 1001010101 1101001111 1110010101 1101011100 1001011101 1011011101 111101 1111 100101 100111 0101010101 110101 110101 0111111111 101111 1111 100101 111101 0111010101 111101 111111 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 573
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • Amount of lines: 187
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; my, and, to, of, he, ', not, know, ah are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'and, 'o, ah are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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