This is an analysis of the poem Mysterious Doings that begins with:

As once I rambled in the woods
I chanced to spy amid the brake... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabaXcXc adddeefe dfefbgbg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110001 110010101 01010101 01110101 11011111 11010101 11111100 11011101 11110111 010111001 10011101 11010111 11010101 110001110 1100100111 11011101 11011111 010110111 111011101 11010001 11010101 11010111 01010111 11010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he is repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Mysterious Doings;
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  • history of its creation;
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