This is an analysis of the poem Here Have I Learnt The Little That I Know that begins with:

Here have I learnt the little that I know,
Here where in these untutored woodland ways... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacddcdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111010111 11011000111 0111110011 10010100001 1011110101 1101010101 11010101001 10011101001 0111011101 0111000101 1100110111 0111111110 1010110101 11010100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 591
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; me is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word here is repeated.

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