This is an analysis of the poem In The St. Gotthardt Pass that begins with:
The storm which shook the silence of the hills
And sleeping pinnacles of ancient snow ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXabba cXdcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010001 1101000101 11001011101 10010100001 11011111111 0101010101 1011010101 0101010101 1101001101 01010111100 01001110101 11110101111 1101110101 11110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; of is repeated.
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