This is an analysis of the poem Hellvellyn that begins with:
I climbed the dark brow of the mighty Hellvellyn,
Lakes and mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xababbba cdcdaaad cecefffe agagbbbg cfcfbbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110010100 111001111011 1111111010110 11001101001 1011011011110 110000111010 111010011010 1110111010011 111111011010 101001011001 1010111010010 101011001001 111010110010 1100101100010 011010010010 11011101001 111111010110 101101011111 110111111110 111001101011 11101111001101 110011110011 1110100011011 100001001101 1010010010110 010011101101 010010010010 11011101001 1011111010110 0010110010110 11001101010010 01001001011 110111010010 01111101101 1100110111010 11011101001 1110111010110 110011011010 011011010110 001010011000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 413
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, how, didst, thou, long, no, him, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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- summary of Hellvellyn;
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- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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