This is an analysis of the poem The Town Between The Hills that begins with:

The further the little girl leaped and ran,
The further she longed to be;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcbb deeXfeggXbbghdd aiiXahjjfbXdbcCXXccjjX daba cbccdcCXXccdjjc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,15,22,4,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100101111 0101100 011101010 1111101 111100101 0111101 1000111 0110001 011011 01101 10011 11111 1111 10111 0111 111 0101111001 10010111 111 11011 10110 110010 01011 1101 1001 11010 111001 10101 01011 111001 01101 1011011 101101110110 100011 101101 1111 0111 1010011 1110 1101 0111101 111 01011 00101010 11001 11001 011001 00101 110101101 110111101 0101111101 11110100101 111010 00111 0111 010011 0110 0101 00111101 10110 01011 1111 0010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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.

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

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  • summary of The Town Between The Hills;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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