This is an analysis of the poem The Blind Summit that begins with:
[A Viennese gentleman, who had climbed the Hoch-König
without a guide, was found dead, in a sitting posture, near the... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbaXX cbcdbX bdbdbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011100111011 010111100101010 100111110101111 101 1 0 101 001011 11010100010 1101011101 11011010010 0101010001 1101111111 111101 1101010101 1101111101 1001110101 00101100111 1111011111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase old connects the lines.
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