This is an analysis of the poem There Is A Hill that begins with:
There is a hill beside the silver Thames,
Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccbc adadeede fcfagXXg hchcaXca ad adiidi jijXkkXk aeaeiiei lmlmggmg ananhXnh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,2,6,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1001010101 10011111001 1101010101 1001000101 1101001 111101 1101011101 0101001 10010010011 0101010101 1001010111 10010010111 010111 011001 0101111111 011101 01010101010 1100011101 010111001010 1001010001 110101 11010 11011101001 0101001 1101010101 1001110111 0101110101 1101010101 110101 010100 1001000101 010101 1001011101 10110101001 1111010111 1101011001 110111 011101 1011011101 010111 0111011101 0101011101 1001101101 0101010100 111101 1100101 0101011100 111111 1010110101 01010101001 0101100101 1101100101 100101 010101 11001111101 110101 1111010101 1011110001 11011101101 0111000101 111101 010111 0101011001 110101 10010010101 11110010111 1101010111 1100110101 111101 111110 1101010101 0111001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, her, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
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