This is an analysis of the poem When A People Reach The Top Of A Hill, that begins with:
When a people reach the top of a hill,
Then does God lean toward them, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXDcCDacC XefXecCfgcC bcgXXcCXXcC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101001 1111010 1011101 0100111001 0111011 01010101 1010 0111011 10100111 0101010 01010 0111000101 0110111010 010110100010 0111010010 10011010 101001010 1010 10101001 11011101 1001010 01010 01010110 010110111 010110011 10100010010101001 111111011 01001010 1010 11011101 11011101 11010 01010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 387
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, god, lead, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, men, the, god are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines battalions is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word battalions at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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