This is an analysis of the poem Through The Wood that begins with:
THROUGH the wood, the green wood, the wet wood, the light wood,
Love and I went maying a thousand lives ago; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac adad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011011011 111110010101 1010111101011 011010011111 101011011011 101110110111 1110101111111 101110110111 101011011011 101010110111 1110100111111 11111011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; wood is repeated.
The author used the same word through at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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