Analysis of Mountains



Peaks as high as an eye can see,
Snow, like hats, cap all the trees.
But in summer, all the birds and bees
Wake from their slumber and sing a melody sweet:
Mountains high! Mountains low! The wind here blows as far as we can go!

Yet in Autumn, or Winter,
All the magpies
Fly to the skies
To somewhere of paradise.
There, they chant:
Mountains far, mountains near!
The wind here blows as far as we go!


Scheme XAAXB XCCXXXB
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111 1111101 101010101 111100101001 1011010111111111 1010110 101 1101 11110 111 101101 011111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 400
Words 87
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 7
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 153
Words per stanza (avg) 39

About this poem

This poem is about mountains.

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Written on March 23, 2022

Submitted by Ewang on March 22, 2022

Modified on May 01, 2023

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