This is an analysis of the poem Rattlesnake Mountain Dialogue that begins with:
Rattlesnake Mountain
Every night the sky grips my shoulder, in pain....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaXabXcXX aabd abcecXaf acfgX Adcde aXXXgbXAf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,4,8,5,5,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110 100101111001 010111 01110101010 0101000111 1111010001 111110010 11001 1110101010 1 0101010 111101 101001 10110 1010010111 1101100 11101101 000100100 1101100100 11001101010 11110 1 111010101 01010010 101000 01010111 10110 11110101101 1101010 111101 1010001101 1 100011 10011001 1101010 1111010 100101011 10110 111010010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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More information about poems by Maxwell Bodenheim
- Analysis of Rattlesnake Mountain Fable I
- Analysis of Rattlesnake Mountain Fable Ii
- Analysis of The Scrub-Woman
