This is an analysis of the poem While The Woods Were Green that begins with:

WHILE the woods were green,
'Oh I' she sang, 'my heart is new,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcabX dececdeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 11111101 1010011 1111111 1111111 1011111 1011101 10111 10101 11111101 10100011 1111111 1001111 1100101 1011101 101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, now are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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