This is an analysis of the poem The Woodman’s Daughter that begins with:
In Gerald's Cottage by the hill,
Old Gerald and his child,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbabddedfdghXhahbaXafagiaijiXdkdjdlbfbfbfmkmecdmamdmgljXjlbbbbXblfnfdfhbgbfbXmgmbmllalglheieXeliainigXlmjmblnlfl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 114,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 110101 10011100 111101 01110101 0010111 11010101 111101 01010111 010101 11010001 110111 11010101 0101010 11110101 01010010 11010101 11010010 010110101 110101 10010111 1100101 0010110101 100101 11010101 100101 010100101 111101 11010111 111101 01000011 1101101 11001101 110101 11010101 0011001 11011111 111111 011010111 110101 11011101 110111 10100101 110111 01011011 1100011 11110101 01100 11011101 011101 01110101 111001 01010101 010111 0110011111 010101 11011100 111100 01111101 010111 11110111 110101 11110011 010101 11001100 100101 11011111 010101 11010101 110111 11010111 010111 01100110 100101 11100101 111101 11010100 010001 11111111 0100011 11011101 110101 10011111 111111 11010111 010001 11011111 011101 010010100 0110111 1001001110 100101 0111101001 100111 00010101 110011 01010101 0011101 01010101 110101 11110101 0010101 01110101 110110 01110111 00111001 11110101 110001 01100111 010101 100101001 01011 01011101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3569
- Average number of words per stanza: 651
- Amount of lines: 114
- 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; and, they, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, is are repeated.
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- summary of The Woodman’s Daughter;
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