This is an analysis of the poem The Campus On The Hill that begins with:
Up the reputable walks of old established trees
They stalk, children of the nouveaux riches; chimes...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdebdbfgffcfdd hXbcbXhgihihfhehh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010001010101 11100010101 001110111010 11101111 1111101 11110010101 01110010101110 1111001 1101010001010 11100101 1001011111100010 10010101001 1011010100100101 0010001 11010010101 0101011001 010101001010111010001 011110101 100010001001010 10101001010 110101001100 111100111010 10010101010 111011101011 101010100010101 11010100 111101111111 1111110 11101111 00111110111 011010001 10010001000 1110111011 0111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 778
- Average number of words per stanza: 133
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; of, in, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, they are repeated.
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- summary of The Campus On The Hill;
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