This is an analysis of the poem Edith: A Tale Of The Woods that begins with:

Du Heilige! rufe dein Kind zur?ch habe genossen das irdische Gl?ch habe gelebt und geliebet. ~
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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa bbbbcdcd eeeeddfefeaagcgcdhdhddigigccaajjkblbeekkmmmmeffddnbnbjjooeeddffdpdpcciikkdfdddccccaaafafjjkX mmffaabbhhddjjffjddqqklggaXbbddddddffqqaakkeennkkaXaaqqddnnXqbbkkccnnXfececeeaakkccddkkrrffdd dkdk qcqc dada haha kXkc ekek eaea adad dddXXmm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,8,92,93,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101111110011011101100 101 0111010101 0011011101 1101010101 1101000101 1101010101 1100110100101 1000110101 0111000101 10110111111 1111011100 11000110101 1011010001 0111110101 1111010101 0100011001 11110110111 1011110101 11000100011 1001010101 1011010110 1011010101 1101110111 1101101101 11100110101 0101111101 1001010101 10001111111 1100110111 11001011101 0011110101 11110001111 0101010101 1101000111 1111110101 0101111111 1001011101 1101110111 1001110101 11011010101 110100100101 0111010001 01110111001 111000010100 1001110101 1111111101 1101000111 1101010111 1111010101 0011011111 11110101001 10111101001 1101111111 0101 110101 1011110111 0111010111 1101010101 10110111101 0111110101 011011101 0011111101 1111011101 0101010001 1101110111 1101010101 110010111001 0101010111 1101001111 0111110111 1101010101 01010111001 1111010001 1011010111 1111001111 1100010001 0111000111 11011100001 1101011101 100111100101 1011010101 01010000111 1001000111 110101 1101 11010100001 01011101001 0101100111 0101110101 1101110111 11010101001 0101110111 1011011111 0101110111 0100010101 1100110101 1111010111 1101101101 1101010001 1101110101 0111000111 1111011101 01110010111 0101001101 1101010101 1011000101 10110100101 1101110101 10101010111 1101010101 0001010101 1011010111 11001010111 1100100111 1001010101 1001011111 0101000101 1101 1111001 1101010111 10110001001 1101111111 1001000101 1100011100 1011000111 011101101101 1110110001 11110100010 0101011101 1101110101 1011000101 1101110111 1101110101 1111011101 100101001001 0111011101 10011110101 1001010101 1101000101 11011101001 10001001101 1111010111 1111000101 01010010111 01110010111 1101000101 1011010111 1111000101 0111110101 0101010111 101101001001 010101001011 1001110110 0101110101 101111010111 01001110001 11001011101 0101110111 0011011101 0011111101 0011010111 11111101001 0111010101 1101110101 1101011101 1111000101 100001110101 1001111101 1001110101 1100011111 1111100111 1101001111 01010110001 1111001111 1100111101 0111010101 1111010011 1101110001 0111011111 1001011101 1011101100 1011010111 110111101 1111011111 101101011 011110101 1101000101 1101110001 1101011101 1001000101 1101011111 1101010101 110101111001 0111110101 11000111 1010101 10101010101 101111 110001101 1011101 011101001 1111111 11111111 1011001 10110101 110111 0111010111 100101 11110111 011001 11111110 1111110 10011111 110101 01011111 1011101 10110101 1100111 01101111 010011 11110111 111101 10110011 110111 11110111 100101 11010111 111101 11000111 100101 01110100111 1101110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 712
  • Average number of words per stanza: 129
  • Amount of lines: 233
  • 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; and, her, to, when, had, ' are repeated.

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

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Edith: A Tale Of The Woods;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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