This is an analysis of the poem The Mountain Castle that begins with:
THERE stands on yonder high mountain
A castle built of yore,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a ba b c dc d e fe f c gf g b fg f c fd f X gh g g ig i a fj f d jX X h fX X a kc k f fgXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110110 010101 1111110 0101101 11111010 1101011 11001010 1101110 0111010 010111 110110010 01101001 110010110 0101101 01101110 11011101 1110101 01001001 11101001 01101001 11011010 1111101 11110110 01011011 11011010 1111011 1111010 0101001 110101100 01011001 11101110 11001001 10110110 0101001 10011110 0101011 10110010 0100101 111110100 11001101 11110110 11011011 010110110 010010100 11111110 01001011 01011110 11101011 11110110 1111101 11011001 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 39
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 43
- Average number of words per stanza: 8
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, no are repeated.
The author used the same words no, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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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- summary of The Mountain Castle;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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