This is an analysis of the poem The American Forest Girl that begins with:
Wildly and mournfully the Indian drum
On the deep hush of moonlight forests broke;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdee ffgXeehiddjjkkllmm ccndnXnnaammbobomm ddhiddddXmdd jjddddhX dgdgddffcccc kkhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,18,18,12,8,12,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110001001 1011011101 11011111001 10110001101 1101110101 0101110101 1011100111 0101000101 1011110101 11011101001 1001010011 1011100101 1001011111 0101010110 110101100101 0011110101 1011010001 1011010100 1111111101 0011010101 10100111010 01010111010 1111011101 10001010101 1111011101 0111110001 11010100001 1101111001 0100010101 0011110111 1101111101 10111101101 00110100101 01110111100 11110010111 1101011101 1011111101 1101011001 1101010101 1011011111 0100010001 1111111101 0101000101 1001010101 0101010101 10011011101 11010110101 1101000101 1101011101 1101110100 0111011101 1011001101 0101110111 0101010101 10011111110 1001011001 1111110111 1011011101 1111010101 0101000111 1101010101 1001111101 0111010101 0101010101 11101101001 1111111111 1111010101 0111010101 1011111101 1111010001 1111110101 1001010111 1101110101 1011000111 101000000111 10010010111 11001111010 10110101110 11011111001 0011110101 11001010101 1011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 535
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, his, something are repeated.
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- summary of The American Forest Girl;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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