This is an analysis of the poem The Empty Hills that begins with:
The grandeur of deep afternoons,
The pomp of haze on marble hills,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa bcbc dadXXcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101101 01011101 110011101 11001101 11001101 11111101 11110101 01010101 10110101 11010101 10010101 010101100 11110111 01010111 11001101 01011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Empty Hills;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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