This is an analysis of the poem Inscription 05 - For A Monument At Silbury-Hill that begins with:
This mound in some remote and dateless day
Rear'd o'er a Chieftain of the Age of Hills,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXaXXaXXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010111001 11001000101 11011100011 11010000101 11001010101 10110010100 0111110001 01110111101 0111010111 11001111101 1011010101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 515
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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 is repeated.
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