This is an analysis of the poem Disenchanted that begins with:

Alas, I thought this forest must be true,
And would not change because of my changed eyes;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaccccddccbb eeeecccccc cXeffggegcgXc ahahffbcbhcbheieei jjkkbbbebebbdbdb ddcjcjlleedXbXgggb beBbeebbbbblbXlXdBdbbbbbbmXmbbbXbfB alalaallgcgecbbecX gjgjgggg Xceegffeegbfbfcfcf bcbcfffXfjjfXbhff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,10,13,18,16,18,35,18,8,18,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111010101 1111010111 1101010111 1101111101 0101111101 1101011101 1101 1111011101 1111011011 1101 1111111101 1111011111 1101011110 1111111111 11101101001 11010111001 11011101101 1101111111 1111010111 0101010101 0111011101 1101 1111011101 11110010111 1011010111 1111111101 1111111110 1101 11010010101 0011111101 11001000111 111111111 1111 1101010111 0111110111 001011 11110111010 1111111101 1101111111 1111101100 1111011101 0101010101 1101000101 0111000101 1111011100 1101110111 1101011101 10010010101 1101010111 100011001100 1101010001 111111 1101111111 1101010101 100111 111101101101 111111 1011110011 1001011111 0111110111 0100110101 11010110111 110101111 11010100011 11110111001 0101010101 1101010101 01110100101 0100110101 1101001111 1111011 0011001110101 111111 1111110101 1101110101 1011110111 1100011111 0111111101 0111111101 1111111111 11001 101101 1111110011 1011011110 1001011111 11111110110 1111000101 0111011101 1101111111 1101111100 0101001101 0101010111 1111 1011010101 01101100101 0101010111 0101011101 10110101010 1101110101 11010011010 1111001101 1101110001 1011111101 0101010010 10001000111 1101001100 1111010001 1111 1110111101 1011011111 1111010100 1101011101 1101011101 1101010101 1111010111 1101111101 1111 1111110001 1111110011 1101100101 1101111111 1111010100 1101110101 1101011011110101 1111 1101011111 1111001111 1101110101 01001111101 1111010111 0101010101 1101100101 0101011111 1101111101 1101 1110111111 1111000101 1100101100 1101010101 1101011111 10110011101 1111110101 101111111 01101100101 0101110111 1101110111 10001101111 00100010111 0111010101 1111111101 101101010001 1111110111 1111111011 1011001101 1111011101 111101 1111010111 0101011110 0111100111 1101101101 1111 11011111010 1111011101 01111111010 1111110101 0101100011 1111011011 1111110111 1101100101 1011011111 1111100101 1101011001 1100110111 0101010101 1011111 1110101 11011111 0101111111 1111000101 1111111101 1011101 01111111 1011010101 11011100001 1110011101 0101011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 703
  • Average number of words per stanza: 135
  • Amount of lines: 186
  • 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; i, thought, to, and, woe, me, you, of, he, for, voice are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words some, and, to, more, with, the, alas, i are repeated.

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

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