This is an analysis of the poem Love As A Landscape Painter that begins with:

ON a rocky peak once sat I early,
Gazing on the mist with eyes unmoving;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbc debbXfX XXbX bcfb ccbbXghbbXb bXXe hbcb daX bfXc iiXXg bXaX bebfbiibXbeicf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,4,4,11,4,4,3,4,5,4,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111110 1010101100 1110101010 1111101010 1000101011 10101101110 1010101010 1111101110 10101001100 1011111010 100101000100 101011011100 10110101010 1110111010 10101010110 1110100110 1010101010 1011110010 1010110010 11101001110 1011101010 1110101010 1011101010 10101110010 0011101010 1110101010 1011111010 1010101110 1010100010 1010101010 11101001010 1110101011 11111011000 11100110010 1111101010 1011101110 1111110010 1110101010 11110011011 1011101110 10101010110 1011101010 1010101010 1011110110 0010101010 1010001010 1011101010 1010101111 1010101010 1010111010 1011001111010 0010111010 1011100110 10001110100 1111101010 1011101110 10101001010 1001101110 1011100110 1010101010 1110101010 1111011010 1111111010 1010101110 1010101111 1111111110 1011111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 67
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, i, all are repeated.

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

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