This is an analysis of the poem Today When You Went Up The Hill that begins with:
Today when you went up the hill
And all that I could see ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaaaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 111111 11010111 10101 01111111 011111 1010101 01111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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