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

OUR blue sierras shone serene, sublime,
When ghostly shapes came crowding up the air,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaaaccaddXeeaffagg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 1101110101 10001101101 1111101101 10000010101 1101010001 1001001111 0101000101 1011000101 11010111001 11110101001 1101110101 1001111101 0101111101 11001010101 11011000111 1101110101 11000100111 1111110101 0111010101 1011000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 928
  • Average number of words per stanza: 154
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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