This is an analysis of the poem Monument Mountain that begins with:

Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild
Mingled in harmony on Nature's face,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdcXacaeebfgbfXabhaidcaccbXejcklhbjamijfnaafi bgmcaaojklafkciXcjbacabceaffXl afXgniXcbfjfljcX cbfpaaciahoidflnapbfbcfngfmncgpdjpicicoalac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,30,16,43,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010101 1001001101 0111010111 1101001111 0101010001 1101111001 0111011111 0101011101 0101010101 11010011001 0111010101 00100110111 0101110101 1100010001 11101100101 0111011111 1111001111 11011111000 1101010101 1101100100 1101001101 1101110011 0101010111 1011000101 0111010100 1001011011 0101110001 11001011001 1001110111 11010101010 1101010011 0011010011 0101010101 1100000101 0101010111 1111001111 1101111101 1001010111 1001011101 0111000101 1111010101 01010100101 1001011011 0101111001 1001110111 0111000101 0101001101 01010011110 10010111001 0101000101 1101110101 1101110101 0100111101 01000100111 0101010011 1011010101 0111100001 1101010101 1101010111 1001000111 0101110111 0101110001 11010010101 1011010101 0101011111 0101011111 00101110011 01010100111 0101001111 0111111111 1101010101 1101000101 1111000101 01011110101 1101110011 01010111001 1100110111 0101110101 1100010001 01100111000 11011111100 1111111111 1111011101 1111010101 11110101100 1111010111 0111010111 1101010011 11010010011 0111000101 1111111111 1101111101 1111001111 0111011111 0101010111 0011000101 1101011101 01110100001 1100110111 11000010111 1110110101 01100010111 0100010101 0101000111 11011101001 0001101101 1111110111 11011101010 1111111001 0011011111 1011010111 1001010001 01010100001 0011011101 10001010100 1101011101 0011010101 1011010101 0111010101 1101101101 1001110111 1011111101 0011110111 0101010101 1111000101 0101010111 001100110001 11001110001 1101010001 01111000111 1011110101 0101010111 11000010111 0101110111 11010011001 0101010101 0101000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1506
  • Average number of words per stanza: 279
  • Amount of lines: 137
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, i, me, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, she, with are repeated.

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