This is an analysis of the poem Alpine Holiday that begins with:
He took the grade in second - quite a climb,
Dizzy and dangerous, yet how sublime!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddbbee ffggdX gghhXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 1011001101 0111110101 0101011101 11010001101 1111011101 1110111101 1010011001 1101010101 1111000101 1111010101 110110001 1111110001 10001011111 0111111011 1011011111 11010101101 11011111111 1101011101 1100010101 10011011111 11111101111 10 0101111111 11011100001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, she, one, me, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines no is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase no connects the lines.
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