This is an analysis of the poem Down From The Mountain that begins with:

As down Mount Emerald at eve I came,
The mountain moon went all the way with me....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abac dede XXXcXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111001111 0101110101 1011010101 00111100100 0101010101 1101110101 1111011101 111010001001 101110111110 11011101100 110101001101 0111100100 1001111111 1001010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.

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  • summary of Down From The Mountain;
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