This is an analysis of the poem Woodmanship that begins with:

My worthy Lord, I pray you wonder not
To see your woodman shoot so oft awry,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXacadedefgfghihbjcjccacakakaelelbXbXibXblilimbmbeXeXiabamfmXacaccmcmcmcmbebelelXhXhXXacaXmXmelelcXceejejhghgnlnlececeneneaeamhmhneeehaXambmbagagcc X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 150,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101111101 0111011101 111110101 1101010111 10110110110 1101110101 10011111010 1101000101 1111111101 0111100100 1001110001 1111011101 0111010101 11011111001 011011101 1111101111 1111010101 1101010100 1111101101 0101011101 1111000101 111101100 100111101 1111111101 1111100101 1101010111 1101010101 110111011 11111110001 1111010101 111111101 1111110101 0111010101 11101010110 1101110101 11011100101 0101110101 1000101100 1101111101 100100100 1110010100 1101110101 1001010000 1011010101 11010011101 1011010100 11111100110 1111000100 110101001 0101100101 0101010101 0111110101 1101010101 111110100 1111111101 1110101100 1111010100 1011110001 1110011101 0101011101 1101110111 11000100001 0101010001 1101000100 1111110101 1101011101 1101111101 1111011111 1111011101 0111001101 0001011101 0111010101 1101110101 0101010101 11010101001 1010011001 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 01010100001 1101010111 1111011101 11010100100 1001010010 1101011111 11011011101 1111011101 1101111110 0111111110 1101110001 1111010101 1111010101 110101000 0111011001 0110011000 111110101 11000110101 1101011101 1111110111 1111111111 0101011011 01110111000 1101111001 0111110010 1101011101 0111100101 010100011001 11110100011 1101010101 1111110101 1111010101 1101110101 1111110101 1111110101 1101110101 11011111101 1111011111 1101110101 1111110010 1101111111 1111010101 0111111101 1111010101 1111111101 1111101101 1111111111 1101000101 0101111101 1101111101 11110100101 1101110111 0101111101 1101001101 1101110101 1111010101 1101000101 1101010111 1111110001 1101000101 1101000111 1111111101 11001111110 1111010011 1100111111 1111011001 1001111101 1011110101 0101110101 11111111010 010010111010 11010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3193
  • Average number of words per stanza: 614
  • Amount of lines: 151
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; but, your, he, his, with, my, i, nor, me, her, to, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, nor are repeated.

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  • summary of Woodmanship;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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