This is an analysis of the poem The Green Mountain Boys that begins with:

I.
Here we halt our march, and pitch our tent... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X ababbbbb X cbcbdede X efefgaga
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 111111111 1010101 1111000101 1100101 11110101 1010011 010101101 011101 1 101110101 1100101 010110101 1011101 010110101 00101010 11011101 01010111 1 110100111 10101101 01010101 0010101 1101010101 0010101 1110110101 10100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; our is repeated.

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