This is an analysis of the poem Ascent To The Sierras that begins with:
Beyond the great valley an odd instinctive rising
Begins to possess the ground, the flatness gathers ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcXXXXdX efbddagbXXdgbcceXcffXehgbde Xh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,27,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101101101010 010010101010 01011 1011010 0101000110010 1011 110011 01110010100 101101 11011010 011011010 1101001 0110010111 1000 101111101010 110011110110 0010110110 0101111001010 111000100101 111001010011 11 10011110110 1010100101101 110111010010 1001 0011001 01110010111 00101 100110111 1011110100101 11101 110110 010100101010 111100 111111 0111010110111 0010 0101011 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 518
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you are repeated.
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