This is an analysis of A Mountain Spring by Henry Kendall.

Peace hath an altar there. The sounding feet
Of thunder and the wildering wings of rain…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbaabcddccd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111010101 01010100101 01101010111 1111010111 11110100101 1101010101 11011101011 1101110101 0111011111 0101010101 0100011101 10110111101 0101011101 1100010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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