This is an analysis of the poem In The Mountains that begins with:

Land-Marks
The way is rock and rubbish to a road... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabbaabbaacdacd X X adeaaeeafagfag
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,1,1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11 0101110001 1111010111 00010111001 1101010101 0101011101 01001110101 1111110111 0101010101 11110111011 0101011111 1101111100 1111110101 1101010101 1111111100 1 011 1110110101 1011111100 0101010101 1011010011 0111010111 1001010101 0111010111 0101110101 1011000101 1111111101 1011011101 0101011101 0100010111 1101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; their is repeated.

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  • summary of In The Mountains;
  • central theme;
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