This is an analysis of the poem The White Road Up Athirt The Hill that begins with:
WHEN high hot zuns da strik right down,
An' burn our zweaty fiazen brown,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXccd eeeefffg cXXXhhXd iXjjiiid kXkklXld ffeXaaag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11110101 11010101 01111101 11011101 01010111 11010111 01111001 01011101 01011101 11111101 11111101 11010111 11011101 01001001 11111001 11110111 01011111 11110101 01011110 01011111 11011111 100100111 11011001 11011111 11111101 01000101 11110011 110000101 101010101 11110111 01111001 11010111 01010101 11010111 01011101 11000101 100101111 010100101 101111001 11010101 11110101 11010101 11000111 11010111 11111111 110101001 01111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; we, da, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word hill at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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