This is an analysis of the poem We Climbed That Hill, that begins with:

We climbed that hill,
The road flushed red in pride ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaccddcdbeeXbffgchbbhiihjXjikkiihbbjjjhbbbababaaaaajjhhcididbdccblggbkmmnllhkbbiohXeooeioiXiiggnpopelecooXlcackgbbk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 117,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 011101 11010100101 1101010101 1101 1101010101 110011 1101110001 1001 011101 10 01 10111 010101 10 0101 110101 11010010 101 1101100101 1101011111 1111 1111 11 0001010011 1001 01011111011 1101 01001000111 1010101 1101 1111 1111110111 110101 01110010101 11 11010001 111101 11010100001 1111 1011011101 1010111 1011111101 1011 010101 1101011101 0101010101 1111001101 111011 1101 1101110111 1010001 1111110101 01010101111 0101 111101 0011010110 01000101 11 1011011111 1101 11001010101 0111 110111 0111110101 1111 11 11010 10 10 11001110101 0101011101 1101 110101 1101 1100110 01010101010 110101 11 11 1001011111 10110010101 0101010001 1011 11 0101001 1011 101001 01001011101 1101010101 110011 1111 111101 1011 10100010111 010 1110 01111101 11 0101 010011 11010010101 11010 0100010001 11001 110101 0101000111 1101010101 101011110 0100010110 01010100001 0111010100 1011110111 11110 10001 1101000101 0011010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3392
  • Average number of words per stanza: 613
  • Amount of lines: 117
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; beauty, with, and, in are repeated.

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

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  • summary of We Climbed That Hill,;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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