This is an analysis of the poem The Old House In The Wood that begins with:
Weeds and dead leaves, and leaves the Autumn stains
With hues of rust and rose whence moisture weeps;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ecec fgfg hbhb agag aaaa iaia gdgd dgdg jcjc dddd ckck
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110101 0101111101 1101010111 110111 1101010101 0011011101 1101010111 010101 1011010101 1001111101 1101110101 110101 1111110101 0101010101 1111100101 111101 01011101001 0101011101 01101011101 1001101 1101110101 1111011111 1111111111 110001 1101010111 1101011111 0111010011 110101 1100110111 0101010110 1101000101 010101 0101110111 0101110111 1101011101 111101 1010111101 1101101101 01010010101 011101 00110101001 1111111111 1111010111 111001 0111010101 1111111101 1111110101 110101 1111111111 111000110 1101111101 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, the are repeated.
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