This is an analysis of the poem The Way Of The Wood that begins with:

WHERE baby oaks play in the breeze
Among wood-sorrel and fringed fern, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb abab dede dfdf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011001 011101101 10110001 010010111 11010111 01010101 01010101 11010101 11011111 110111011 11010101 01010111 11111111 10111101 11110101 110010101 01111101 11110111 11010101 10111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; her, your are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, your are repeated.

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  • summary of The Way Of The Wood;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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