This is an analysis of the poem To C. Lloyd, On His Proposing To Domesticate With The Author that begins with:

A mount, not wearisome and bare and steep,
But a green mountain variously up-piled... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaabccbadeeddffdbb gccgggddXhXXhihiihjikXkbXijff lfflhXbhffmm ddnbbnnjddj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,29,12,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111001111 10110100011 11001011101 1101001101 1101010111 1101010101 1100110001 0111110101 11000110101 1101011101 1101010101 0101010101 1110010101 1011011101 10101010100 11001011111 11001110101 1111001111 1111010011 11110010001 0100011101 1011110101 0101010111 1011111101 01010111101 0101110101 1001010101 10111100101 11101010101 1001000101 1100110110 11001010101 110101010001 1001110101 1100010101 110100011001 01001010101 110001110101 0101011111 1101110101 11010010101 11010000101 0111010101 11111101100 1101110001 0111001101 1100110101 1001010101 1101010001 01010110001 11010100101 110011100101 0111010011 11010011110 11001011101 1101001001 1101110001 1101110101 1101101101 1110010101 1101010101 1011010101 1001011001 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111110111 1111011101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 793
  • Average number of words per stanza: 133
  • Amount of lines: 71
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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 is repeated.

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