This is an analysis of the poem Inscriptions Written With A Slate Pencil Upon A Stone that begins with:
THE LARGEST OF A HEAP LYING NEAR A DESERTED QUARRY, UPON ONE OF THE ISLANDS AT RYDAL
Stranger! this hillock of mis-shapen stones ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcdbefggeegXhccfXdeeXbgcbgchaeXaXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,35,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100011010010100110010110 1001001101 0101011111 1101110101 0111011101 10110100101 1101110001 0101100101 11010110101 1001011111 1101010001 11010110101 1001010101 1100000101 0111111101 1101010101 0101011110 11111001011 1111010101 1101010111 1101011111 1111010101 10010111000 0101001101 1101111101 01001010111 11001010001 1110110001 1100010111 1001010100 0111010101 0111010111 1111010101 1100010101 1101011101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 811
- Average number of words per stanza: 146
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, and are repeated.
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