This is an analysis of the poem A Song Of Sherwood that begins with:
Sherwood in the twilight, is Robin Hood awake?
Grey and ghostly shadows are gliding through the brake,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccDD bbee ffdD Xccc ggdD ffff hhdD ccgG ffgG bbdD iiddXccDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110011010101 111011110101 110010110001 100010011101001 101010110101 1010101100101 101110111101 011011010101 101010110101 1010101010101 101011100001 010110111100 101010010101 0101010110101 11010101010101 011011010101 10001110101 011111110101 10001110001 11000100010001 101010010101 100010010101 10101110111 011011010101 10110110101 10101110101 10101110101 110100010101 10111011101010 0101110111110 01110101001101 011011010101 1010110111 101010001001 101011010101 110011010101 10101011101 11000100010101 10001110001 110011010101 101110101001 1010101110101 100010110101 011011010101 1011100100111 1010101010101 010101010100101 1101010010111 10101010101 101010110101 101110111101 011011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, in, away, rake, begin, to, robin are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word rake is repeated.
The author used the same word merry at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word asleep at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of A Song Of Sherwood;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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