This is an analysis of the poem Ancestry that begins with:
ONCE I saw mountains angry,
And ranged in battle-front.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabXXbccac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 110101 01010101 1111101110 11110111 0101 1001010 011010101 10111100110 1110101 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Ancestry;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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