This is an analysis of the poem Greenland's Icy Mountains that begins with:
Greenland's icy mountains are fascinating and grand,
And wondrously created by the Almighty's command;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc cXdd Xdbb eeaa XXfX ddaa ffgg hhaa ccdd eXii jjdd ffff ddff kkllXaadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1010101101011 11000101010001 10100010111101 111010010101 0111100111010011 1110011101001 011100111010 111010100110 111011100010100101 11010100101010 00100101101 1111011101001 0101011010110 10100010101 11100101010101 1001011111111 11111100100001 1010101110101 11110000111010101 11001001010111001 01110101001010 001110010101 11111111001 1110101001111000 11111011101 11010101010101 1011001110101 1010100010110001 111011010101101 01101101001011 111010100101 1010100101 100101011011110 11001011010 10010001110001 11101010001011 1110101100010111 10100100001011 101010100100101 110101010101001 11101001001 01001101011010 01110110101101 11101010101001 1110001110110110 101001111010010 101110010111 01101111 01011111111 111010101100001 1101000110101 111011001001101 01010010011 1101001001 1011001110011 110100011100001 101011010101001 101110100101 1110101110111 1011111001001 1111111011001 1010101111101 0100110010101101101 1010011101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, their, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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