This is an analysis of the poem The Mountain that begins with:

The mountain held the town as in a shadow
I saw so much before I slept there once:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeffggdghbijkclcXjjbXgjmfcdbbgglnmoXfpgbqXXgidhildnbgXffgaqcjahjXmXccqjpcqcXXiXXdfkgjrggomXkXXXXkcXcrXXeooXXXmgih
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 116,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01010110011 1111011111 1101111001 1011010001 1101110101 0111110001 1101011011 1111110111 0101010111 01010111001 1101111101 10111011001 0111011001 1001111101 11010111010 1111011111 0111000101 01110111010 110111 1100 1111010110 01011110010 110111010010 10110101010 1011010101 10110101010 1101010101 1111011101 0101100101 1011010101 1111010101 1011010111 0100010101 0101010101 00010 11101 0101010101 1101011101 1101010101 1101110001 1011011111 0111011101 11101110101 1101110111 1111010101 11011 10101 1101110101 1111011111 11011101001 11110010101 01110101010 1001110001 010101111 0101010101 11100101110 11011101111 1100010101 01010000010 1001111101 11010001111 1111011101 0101110101 1111111111 010101001011 10111111001 11010111010 110011 101 11011 11111 01010111010 0110110101 0101000111 0111010001 10010111010 1100110111 1111010100 0111110101 1011 111101 11010010101 10110010101 1101110101 11110111001 1101111101 1111111100 01011101010 1101010111 1111101101 0011011101 10110011101 1001110111 111011101 11010011010 11010101010 1101111011 11101010011 1111110100 1011110111 01001101100 1001010111 1011010101 1101010101 1101010101 1001010111 1101010111 1111010101 0101110101 1101011101 1111110 1011 111010111011 110100110110 0011111101 10110101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4785
  • Average number of words per stanza: 960
  • Amount of lines: 116
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; i, it, and, be, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, we, it are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', warm are repeated).

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

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  • summary of The Mountain;
  • central theme;
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