This is an analysis of the poem In The Wood that begins with:
Blurred by a lilac heat, the meadows:
in the wood, cathedral shadows swirled....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb Xcac deXe abXX afdf cXca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110111011 001010111 1111110011 1110010101 10011111110 1111110010 1111101011 1011011100 10110101011 101111001 01010000101 110100101 0111001010 101010101001 010010010110 101001011001 11011101 100110111 010010111 0010110111 01010100110 0101110111 101111110 1010101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; s, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
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