This is an analysis of the poem The Forest Paths that begins with:
The forest paths are muddy, after the rain;
The meadows are soaked through and through again....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccaaaacXddeeffee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011101001 0111111101 0100010101 0101001100 1101010101 1101110111 1111100101 0111010111 1111111101 0111011111 1101011101 1001011101 1111010001 1011011110 1101010111 1100010101 11110101110 11010101010 1111111101 1011011111 1101111101 0101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 986
- Average number of words per stanza: 182
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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