This is an analysis of the poem The Voice Of The Swamp Oak that begins with:
Who hath lain him underneath
A lone oak by a lonely stream; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaba cdcd bcbc beXe fcfc gaga eXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 01110101 11111001 1011111 10011110 10100101 10101110 111110 10101001 11010101 01011101 1010001 11101110 1001111 00101010 1011101 10101110 1011111 11111000 1111101 10100101 11110001 11110101 1010101 10101110 10100011 10101010 1011101 11010111 11001101 11010111 01000100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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