This is an analysis of the poem Touch The Sky that begins with:
I search to climb the mountains,
To do to seek to reach those peaks....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACABCADE FEFEGEHEIE ABACFEFE ABCADE GEHEIEie eAEJEeAEJE KEIEKEIEjEiEe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,8,6,8,10,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 01010111 1101010 01010100 1101010 01010111 11010101 01101 110 101 110111010 0101 110111010 0101 11111111 0101 11011001 0101 11010111 0101 1101010 01010111 1101010 01010100 110111010 0101 110111010 0101 1101010 01010111 11010101 01101 110 101 11111111 0101 11011001 0101 11010111 0101 01010101 01 1 101010 0101 110110101 111 1 101010 0101 110110101 111 11010100111 01101 0110011010001111 101 11010100111 01101 0110011010001111 101 011101010 0101 010100010 0101 11111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words sky, try at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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