This is an analysis of the poem Thunder On The Downs that begins with:
Wide earth, wide heaven, and in the summer air
Silence! The summit of the Down is bare... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffXbXbbbgghhhhaaii jjccccjjcXcckkkklmaanneXooiXcchhXfjjcXbbcceeaaeeoolm nnjjhh iibbbXhhjjXocceeXXeebbeeXXcccX eehhcXeeaappnnqqhhbbbbnnlmjjkkbfXajjccrriiccjjbbrrbbbbccjjii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,52,6,30,60,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110100101 1001000101 0101010111 1111101111 0111011101 1111010101 01110100101 1001011101 0111110100 1001011101 0011011100 1011010101 01010101010 1100010101 1101110101 11010100110 1101010101 00110010101 01110010111 1011110111 0101010111 01111001001 0101111111 11010111101 1101010111 11110010101 0101110001 1011001101 10010110001 1111100101 1101010111 11001110101 0101001101 0101010101 0101110001 1011010101 0101110101 1101110100 1101111101 1001010101 1101110011 1001010101 11010101110 11010101010 1101100101 1101111100 1001111101 1101000101 1001011101 11010110101 1001011111 01110111110 11011101010 11011011010 1001110011 110111011 0111100101 1100010101 0101111101 11010010101 0101011000 11010100101 0101100111 01010100101 11010100111 01010100010 110100101010 11111000111 0100111001 0101011111 11110101101 1101010001 0101111111 1111101101 1001110011 0101000101 1100011100010 01010101010 10010011011 1111110100 1001010101 1001000101 1111011101 01101001101 1111101101 1001001101 1101011101 0100011111 11011101001 1101010011 111110101 1011111000 1101011110 1011010111 1110001010 1111100101 11011101100 111101001010 1001101101 1111000101 1110110101 0101110001 11011001000 1011010110 1101010101 0101010001 0101010111 11010100001 11001010001 1001100101 101101001011 1111100110 11001000101 1011110001 0100011111 1011111111 1111001011 1101010111 1001110111 1101100100 11111111001 01010111100 110011101001 1011010101 1001011011 0111010101 1011111111 1111110111 0100110101 11010010101 0111110111 1011010111 0110101111 10010010101 0101001101 1101011111 0111001101 1011010001 1101110001 1001011101 0100111101 1101111100 1001000101 11111100101 1001011101 11010010101 0110010101 0101010101 0111001111 1011010111 1101111101 0101011101 1011010101 0101010111 0101010101 1101010111 1101010101 1101110001 0011000101 00101000101 10010111001 1100111101 1111010101 1101010101 1101110101 1001001101 1110011101 0011011101 001011110101 1001111101 01010100111 1101011101 1101010101 0101111101 1101011101 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1527
- Average number of words per stanza: 275
- Amount of lines: 176
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, of, thou, thy, his, our, her, no, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, the, thou are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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