This is an analysis of the poem The Call Of The Woods that begins with:

I must get out to the woods again, to the whispering trees and the birds
awing,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbccc deeadd fgfgbefe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100101001001101 10 0100101110010111 01 11111011110101101 01 1111001011010110101 11111011111110011 1 0100100111111100101 11110010111010110 1 11010010011110110101 1110100111110100 101 010001111110100100 101 110110011101110010 1 1110111011011110 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
  • Average number of words per stanza: 67
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, out, of are repeated.

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

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