This is an analysis of the poem The Hollow Wood that begins with:
Out in the sun the goldfinch flits
Along the thistle-tops, flits and twits...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXa bcXcbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10010111 010101111 010101 11111 11111 011101 001101 101011 110101 1111110 1011111 0110011 101100111 111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase fish connects the lines.
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- summary of The Hollow Wood;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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