This is an analysis of the poem As Toilsome I Wander'D that begins with:

AS TOILSOME I wander'd Virginia's woods,
To the music of rustling leaves, kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXXbcXXB XXcXcaB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101100101 00100101111111 10 11101001010010 1001011101001100111 101 01001110111101101 1 1010111101101 1101111011 111111111100 100100100101100101 11111001011010110 01011 101100110110010 100101 1101111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 440
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, on, and are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word comrade at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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