This is an analysis of the poem The Peaks that begins with:
In the night
Grey heavy clouds muffled the valleys, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCdEfX gbahEfX ghdbhhfhXABC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 001 110110010 101101101 110110010010 101010111 11111100101 010010111 0010 010111101110 10101100010 110110010011 101010111 11011111 1111110001 0010 01100100101 110 11100100111 11111010101 1101001010 11011011 1010101 001 110110010 101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; thou is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thou is repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Peaks;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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