This is an analysis of the poem Mountain Pictures that begins with:

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FRANCONIA FROM THE PEMIGEWASSET... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aX babacddcceXdfef gghhhhdidddddijaajkk XX lkkldhdhkkhkiih llaamkkbbggmhhmlllhllXXllkkhbfbkddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,15,20,2,15,35,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1000010000 1111000101 1111110101 1111011111 1001011001 1101110111 0101101101 1101101101 1111011111 11010111101 1001001111 1100010100 11011100111 1111011101 11111101001 0011001111 1101111101 1101110101 11010011111 1101110111 11110100101 0111010101 0111011111 1101011101 1101010101 1001110001 1001000101 11000111101 1001010111 1001011101 1111010111 01011101101 0011010101 1111111001 0101110101 1101110101 1 1100100 1110010101 0011010011 0101010101 00110100101 1001110101 0101011111 1101000101 0101000101 0111011001 0101011111 01001101111 10101001101 0101011101 1011000101 1001000101 1111011111 0111010111 11111101001 1011000101 0111110111 0111010111 0101010111 0101000111 01011100111 11110101001 00111010101 01110100111 0101010101 11010010101 01001000111 1111110111 1001011101 10000111001 1101011011 1111010101 1101101101 1111100101 01000111010 1100110101 00101011101 10001011101 1111111001 0101110101 1011011101 0101011111 0101011100 1000010111 1001011111 1101000101 100101110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 645
  • Average number of words per stanza: 117
  • Amount of lines: 89
  • 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, your, of are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Mountain Pictures;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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