This is an analysis of the poem The Wood By The Sea that begins with:
I DWELL in the wood that is dark and kind
But afar off tolls the main,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abAB aaaa caca dede ffff gbgbXabAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100110111 1011101 01111101 1010001 010110101 010101 1110111001 010011 011100101 11000101 100100101 00101001 10110101 0111001 011100101 0100101 01010111 1110111 1001101101 1110111 1110101 010000101 011100101 10101001 11100110111 011101 01111101 1010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, afar are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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