This is an analysis of the poem On A View Of Pasadena From The Hills that begins with:

From the high terrace porch I watch the dawn.
No light appears, though dark has mostly gone, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeeeffbX bbbbggaaee eehhiig gjjaaaakkbbllmm nnbXooggnnbbccpp ccggnndd ccbbnnXcaann
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,10,7,15,16,8,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0011011101 1101111101 1001110101 1101110101 1010010101 1101110101 0101001101 1001110101 1101110101 0101010001 1101110101 1001011101 1101010011 0101011101 1111010101 1101001100 1111111101 1111011101 01110110111 11011010101 0101111101 0101011111 1101011101 1011101101 1111110101 0001010101 11110110101 1101011101 0111110101 1111110101 1101010101 1101010101 11011101001 1111110101 1111010101 0101000101 0101010101 0110010101 0101011111 1101011111 0111100101 10110010101 1001001101 0101100101 0111100101 0100110101 1101010101 01011100011 0011011111 1111010101 0111010101 1101000101 1101011101 01011100111 1101000101 1101010111 1001010101 1101000101 0111011100 1001010111 0111011111 1111010101 1101010101 01001010111 0101001101 1001001111 1001000101 0101010101 01010010101 1011011101 0111011101 1101010101 0111011101 01110100101 1101010101 1001010101 0101010101 1101011001 1101111000 1111110101 1101010101 1101010101 0100010101 1001110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 536
  • Average number of words per stanza: 94
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.

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