This is an analysis of the poem The Hill Maples that begins with:
Here on a hill of the occident stand we shoulder to shoulder,
Comrades tried and true through a mighty swath of the years!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb XbXb bcac XdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001011110010 1111110101000 01111011110010010 1101010101011 0100111011111100 10101011100101 1101110001010011 1110110101001001 10100101111010 11011110100111 101010111110010 1001110100101 10010011010110110 1001110110111 11111111111110 11100101100001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word down is repeated.
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