This is an analysis of the poem Night Burial In The Forest that begins with:
Lay him down where the fern is thick and fair.
Fain was he for life, here lies he low:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef ggfhh hXXdfXfggggg ccii aajjhXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,12,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1111010111 111111111 00111001101001 11100110101 1011101001 101110010101 11001100101 1001110101 101100101101 1110110101 1111011111 11111 111101101001 1101001001101 1110011110101 011011100101 1010010100101 1001001 10110 1001000 011010 1011 10100110 10111 10110 01001 001001 01111 0100100 1110010101 010101001001 111101110 1010010010110 1111111001 10010101 1100100111 1010010111 01011110101 010010110010010 01
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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