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

We are wild as the storm
We are restless as the spring ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xab cXadXXeca dddd beXeaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,9,4,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101 11101001 1110111100110 1111101 111000101001 1111 11011 10101111010 1111001 101010010 11010011001 1010010001001 111001011011 111001001 111010011 1110010111 111111110 111010010110 110101001 11010100101 1001010 1110110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; we, as, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.

    The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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