This is an analysis of the poem Lines Written In The Album At Elbingerode, In The Hartz Forest that begins with:

I stood on Brocken's sovran height, and saw
Woods crowding upon woods, hills over hills... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcXabbXdeaedfbgfXabghfXcaX bbXahafdebXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010111 1100111101 0101110100 1011010011 1011111101 1111101001 1001111101 0111010101 10110010000 0101010101 010010100101 1011011101 01010001001 1100110101 1011110111 0111011111 1101010101 11010000101 1101110011 1100010111 10011000111 1101111101 1101010001 010110111 1101010001 1111011101 1101000101 111111 1101 1001010111 1111011101 0101011101 1001100101 1011101010 1111010101 01010101001 1110010111 1101010111 1100110100 0111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 827
  • Average number of words per stanza: 142
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; or is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, that are repeated.

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