This is an analysis of The Blind Summit by William Watson.

[A Viennese gentleman, who had climbed the Hoch-König
without a guide, was found dead, in a sitting posture, near the…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbaXX cbcdbX bdbdbX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,6,
  • Metre: 0011100111011 010111100101010 100111110101111 101 1 0 101 001011 11010100010 1101011101 11011010010 0101010001 1101111111 111101 1101010101 1101111101 1001110101 00101100111 1111011111 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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Anadiplosis

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