This is an analysis of the poem We Met Upon Nearby Hill-Tops that begins with:
We met upon nearby hill-tops of our lives
And shook the dust from us, revealing flame-laced clothes...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011111011 110101010111 11011000110 11010001011 010111111001 11110010 111010010011 01010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 375
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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