This is an analysis of the poem On A Beautiful Landscape that begins with:
Beautiful landscape! I could look on thee
For hours,--unmindful of the storm and strife, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddc aaaaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001111111 11010000111 11010011001 1101110101 0101110111 1101111101 1101010111 1101010011 1011010101 0111011101 1001111101 1111001101 1101110111 1001110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; no is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase here connects the lines.
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