This is an analysis of the poem I Stood Tip-Toe Upon A Little Hill that begins with:

I stood tip-toe upon a little hill,
The air was cooling, and so very still, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddeeccddfghhiiccfgbbgg hhhhjj XbffjjccddXf cccciicXaa eecc jjcXbbjjkkccccaabbddccllXXmmnncXffddcceenneedXccmmiihheecccciicceeddbbcXccooccbXeejjccooXd bbXceebbbbdd iibbaaiibbXXlleeaa ppXjiijjccdX ppppXicjeedX ddddee cccXqqaahhqqmmXieeqqXXccXfddXcqq
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,6,12,10,4,90,12,18,12,12,6,32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111010101 0111011101 1011100101 1100010101 110101101001 111111010 1001010001 0101111111 1100111011 10110101111 01010010101 1001011101 1101010101 0101110101 11110101001 0101010100 11001010101 1101010001 010101110010 00111101010 11010011101 1101010101 1101111111 1101010100 11011111110 11010011010 11100101010 01001101110 010110001010 11110110010 11011001000 11111101010 1111110100 1111010101 01010101000 1101010011 01110101110 0101000101 1001011101 001100011 110100110110 100110001010 0101101101 1111010101 0111110100 1101110101 1001110101 110101 1101001101 110101 1011110101 1101111101 11011100110 11111011010 1101110111 0101110101 1111111101 01010111001 1101010111 0101010101 1001011101 1101010101 11010101010 1001101111 1101010111 1010010101 0010010101 1001010111 1111110111 01010010011 01001011101 1101011101 1011010101 0101000101 10010111010 01110111010 1101010101 0111001101 1101011001 1111111101 01011101110 11010101010 0111011101 11010100111 11011101010 10100101100 0111011101 0111010111 1111011101 1111100101 10101111101 1001110100 0101011111 1111111101 1011000101 1001010101 1011000101 1001010111 1111111001 1001010001 1111010101 1011011101 1111110101 1111000101 1111111101 0111010110 1101010110 11011101010 1101110101 1111010101 010011011010 00111111110 1101100101 01011001001 1000010101 1100110101 00111101010 100011001010 10011111001 1001010101 1001001100 0101110100 11110111010 11110101010 1111011101 1011010101 0010100101 1101000101 110101001 1101000111 10010101001 0101010100 11010101110 1100100101010 10110101110 11011001010 11110101010 11110101110 1111100001 1001011111 1111111101 1011010100 1101111111 11110011001 1111010111 11111101001 01010100010 01010001010 11111101010 01110101101 1011110101 1111000101 010101110 1001010101 11010010111 01110011101 10111100101 11001010101 1111101101 1101010001 0101010111 1011010101 11010010101 010101001001 0101010111 0101011101 1001010101 1101000101 011111010010 1101010010 11010101011 01101100101 100101010010 01011100010 1011000111 1111010101 1101010011 1101010101 1101111101 0101011101 1110011111 1100111101 1101011000 101001 01001110110 1000100101010 01010101001 10010010011 1001010001 1101111101 0011010111 011101100 1101010101 1111011111 1100010101 1101010111 0101101100 00110011010 1101111101 1111010101 0101101101 1111010100 1011110111 1111000100 1001111101 0101011111 1110011011 11001101101 1111010111 1111001101 1101110111 1001010101 1101011101 1100111100 0101011111 11010001001 1011010101 1101010100 1101001111 1101011001 0100010011 1111110001 0101011101 1100010111 11011111010 10110101010 1101110101 0111110001 1111111111 1111011101 1111011101 0111110010 0101001101 1111100101 011101010 1111000101 10110011010 11011101010 100110101010 11011111010 1101011111 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 897
  • Average number of words per stanza: 161
  • Amount of lines: 242
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, them, of, s, their, her, o, me, let, in, to, that, from, with, nor are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word a 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 them, d are repeated).

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

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