This is an analysis of the poem Her Vision In The Wood that begins with:

Dry timber under that rich foliage,
At wine-dark midnight in the sacred wood,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababcc dededebb fgfgfggg heheheXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110101110 1111100101 1110111101 010010100111 0100010101 1101010111 11110101110 1101101010 1101111101 1101111111 11001010001 1011011101 11001010101 1001000101 1101011001 1001110101 1101010001 0101111101 0101000101 0101001001 1111111101 1100010101 1101011001 1111000001 11111101111 1111010111 1111011111 1100010101 1111011101 1110010101 11111100101 1111010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; dark, and, nor are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.

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