This is an analysis of the poem The Pass Of The Sierra that begins with:
ALL night above their rocky bed
They saw the stars march slow;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddedebXbfdgdXhbhbhdhdgigiajajXhfhfdfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 110111 01010101 010101 010000101 011001 011110101 110101 11010101 110101 11000101 110101 01111101 0101010 11010101 111101 11111101 011111 11010101 1101011 11110001 1100101 11110111 010101 01110111 1101101 01110101 110111 11010111 010101 11000101 1001001 11001101 010101 010100101 010101 01110101 110101 11011101 110101 1111101 0101101 11010111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1405
- Average number of words per stanza: 255
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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