This is an analysis of the poem The Hermit Of Mont-Blanc that begins with:

High, on the Solitude of Alpine Hills,
O'er-topping the grand imag'ry of Nature,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcddXXefgahgijegkcjaegljamnkokejiclancnegaoaXcdcbXXpgfjgaecde Xacqejdiemmjdi akaoepjqahXgj nkqdmjjgeXjggc hqdfmmeejhpggXqcdijee emqgqjcedceXjgeaeorkjXiphkjcreajaceaoapaXaeXegkjheigjdkjjajdqaddXfjpaaeiXajggeXj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 62,14,13,14,21,80,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010111 101001100010 1101010101 1101110001 0101010101 01011100101 11010111010 0100010101 0101010101 0101000101 0101000101 0101100101 1001010001 1101000101 1101010101 1101010101 1001010101 0101111101 1111110101 1001010101 01001110110 01000100101 1101011001 0011010111 0111000101 1011010 001 1101010101 11010010101 11010100001 0111010101 0101010101 1001011101 0101100111 0101001111 1001010101 1100110101 1001011101 1001110101 0101011111 1101011011 1001010001 1101010110 11010101001 0111000101 01010011001 1111010101 1111011101 0101010101 01000101110 0101010101 1101110111 1101010101 00110101001 1101010001 1001001101 0101010101 0011010101 1101010111 01010111001 0101010101 0110010101 0111010110 10110100001 0111010111 1101011111 1111010101 1101111101 11010110011 1011010101 1001011111 0101010101 0101011101 0101000101 01010011001 11001010001 1111010101 11010010101 1111000101 1011010111 1001010011 1011010101 0101010111 0101011111 11010101001 01001010101 0011010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010001 1101000101 01010010101 0111000101 11001010101 1011111101 1111010111 1100010101 0101001101 100110011111 11010010101 0101010101 1101110101 1101011101 11001010001 1001010001 11110010111 0101010101 01001000101 1100010001 0101010101 1011110011 1100010101 1101000101 1011000101 1101010100 1001010101 01001010101 0111011111 0101110101 10110010101 1101010101 1101100101 1011000111 0111010101 1011010101 1110010001 0011011111 0011010101 1110010011 01011000011 1101111001 0101010101 0111010111 100011010001 1001010111 1011001101 1101010011 0111011101 0111110101 11010100111 0101010100 1101010001 0101010101 01010101000 11001010101 0101010101 0101010101 1100010111 0101110001 1101010001 0101010100 0100011101 11010010101 01001010101 01010111010 1111110101 1101010011 1011010101 0111010101 0101110101 0010011 101 01001111110 0101001101 01011101001 00101011101 1011010101 1101011100 1010010101 1001010111 1101010101 10110101101 0111001101 1100010101 0100010101 1011010100 1101010101 11011000101 1001011011 1101011101 0100010101 1100110 101 0101010101 11000010011 1011111111 0100010101 010010101101 01001010101 1101000111 0101010101 1111010101 0101110101 0101010101 0011010100 11011010001 1001010101 0100111101 1101010001 01111101001 1101110111 1001010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1447
  • Average number of words per stanza: 244
  • Amount of lines: 204
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, of, all, to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words oft, the, of, a are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase all connects the lines.

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