This is an analysis of the poem Forest History that begins with:
I.
Beneath the vans of doom did men pass in.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bccb X deed X fggf X ahhX a diid a edde X iddX X dddd X iddi h djjd a jkkj X ebbe X bjjb X hiih X haah X beeb X Xbbh X diid X iXji X liXl X fllf X cccc X kddk X mjjm X hnnh X iddi X diXd X bhhb XXbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 0101010110 0101111101 01001010101 0111011101 1 11010010101 0011010111 10010010111 11011001110 1 1100010101 1101010101 1101111111 1101010101 1 0101010101 01010111010 1101110101 0111010011 1 1111010101 1101011101 0101011101 0101010101 1 11011100111 0101110101 1111010101 110100100101 1 1001010101 11101110101 1101111111 10110111100 1 1111010101 1001010101 1101011101 11110111001 1 1001011101 1111010101 1101010101 1100111101 1 0011010111 11010111101 0101011101 1100010101 1 01010100111 0101110101 1111011101 0101010111 1 1100111101 1101010101 11010101011 1001110101 1 1111110101 11110111010 110010101010 0100010011 1 01010010101 1101010111 111110101 1101110101 1 0101110101 0101111111 1111010101 1101111101 1 0101011111 0100010101 1101011101 1111110111 1 1111010101 0101011101 010101111 1101011111 1 1111010111 0111110101 1101110101 0111110111 1 1101010001 1101010101 1101110101 1111011101 1 01010100111 1101110111 0101011110 0101010101 1 01010101101 1101110101 11010111111 1101010111 1 01011000101 1111011101 0101110101 1101010101 1 1111010101 1101010101 1101011101 0111110101 1 01010010011 1111010111 1110110101 1111110101 1 1101001011 1111011111 01001000101 110010111001 1 1101111111 10011000010 01010101010 01010010101 1 1110111101 01010000111 1101010110 1101010101 1 1101011101 1111010111 0101011101 1101010101 1 1101010101 0100110101 1100010101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 58
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 145
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
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- summary of Forest History;
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- idea of the verse;
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