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

Drinking wide, sunny wind,
Hand within hand,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaba XcXc XdXd XedeXabeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101 1011 110101 0111 10111010 011 11001101011 11001 1101111 00101 111011001 1001 11001111 11001 101101001 111111 1110101101 111111 111111110 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.

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

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  • summary of On The Hills;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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