This is an analysis of the poem In The Wood Of Finvara that begins with:

I have grown tired of sorrow and human tears;
Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaa bXb ccc ddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100101101 100100101011 01010100101 1111001011010 10010110101 11101001001010 1110100100111 10111100101 111010011101 10010101111 1110100101001 1011010011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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