This is an analysis of the poem Wisdom's Haunts that begins with:

Way out in the woods there are brothers who read
By the light of a candle, in Greek, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcaca dedefdfd fafafdfd cXcXagag
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11001111011 101001001 101011011001 11001001 111101001101 101001011 0101001001 111001011 111111111101 101011000 1000100011101 111011001 111101011111 001001101 01001101001 101011101 11101001011 11001101 11111001011 11001001 11011011101 101001011 001001011001 11001011 11001011001 101001001 11101111001 101101001 111001111001 111101001 101011011111 01111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is 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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