This is an analysis of the poem Rattlesnake Mountain Fable Ii that begins with:
August sauntered down the mountain-side,
Dropping mottled, turbid wraiths of decay....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbbcdXeaXXffcgadegedbgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010101 1010101001 0111111 100010100 0101110101 111111 0010001010 010100100 01011100101 1010101 11011100010 11101 111111 111010101 100101011 10101 110111 01011101 110110101 1000101100 001010100 0101000101 1111010101 0101010101 1001100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 884
- Average number of words per stanza: 154
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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