This is an analysis of the poem The Woods Of Westermain that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a BCbbdecdebcBC X ffggeecchhcXbcBC X iijjhhkkbbjXjhjjXXgigibbbbhhlccicimminingbgbmXmjXbhbjjjjkXijijhhhhllbbhhhXkekebbocolanankjkjbjbjaaoommkkdhdXadadcckkbbjjkknnbbdjdXkkbbkkbabajjkkhhkkaXacBC X nnkkaahXnnpmpmkkjjjjaqiikkrrcckkmmcnnddiichXbebeXjcpXpkeeaack
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,13,1,16,1,154,1,298,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1010101 111 1010101 1110101 1111001 1110111 111 1010101 1011111 1011101 11101 1010101 111 1 1010111 1000101 1010101 11110101 1010101 1010101 1011101 1010111 1110001 1110101 101 1010101 1011101 11011 1010101 111 1 1010101 1010101 1011011 01110101 10011111 1010101 1011101 01010011 1100111 1010101 1010101 1010100 1110001 1010111 1010001 10101001 1011101 1010100 1010111 1110111 1001101 1010101 1111101 1000101 10101101 10101001 1010101 1110101 01101010 01101101 0010111 1110100 10010101 1010111 1010111 1000101 1010111 1110111 1010101 1010101 1110101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1111101 1010001 1110101 10101111 1011010 10000101 1010101 10011101 1010111 1111101 1110101 1100101 1001111 1100111 1010001 1010101 10010101 1011101 1000111 1011101 1010101 1000101 1010110 1000100 1010101 1111101 1110101 100101 1010101 1001101 1010101 1010101 1010111 1011101 10110101 0010101 1010101 1010011 1100101 10001010 0000111 11010111 0010111 1010101 1010111 1110101 1010101 1011111 1010101 1010101 1010101 0010011 1110100 1010111 1111111 1000101 1011101 1010001 1000101 1001101 1010101 1001101 1010111 0010100 1010111 1010101 1110111 1010111 10011101 1111101 1110101 10010101 1011111 0010101 1011111 1010101 1110111 1010101 1011101 10111001 1010101 1010101 1011111 0111011 1010101 10101100 1010011 1010101 1010111 1011101 1111101 1001001 1010101 10010101 1010101 10000111 10110101 1000101 10011101 10010001 1010101 1110101 1000101 1110100 1110111 1101101 1010101 10101 1010101 111 1 1110111 1110011 1011101 1000101 1010101 1110101 0110111 1011101 1010101 1011101 1011101 10101001 1110101 1011101 1011101 1110111 1011101 1110101 1010101 1010101 1010111 1000100 0010101 10001001 1110111 1010011 1010101 10011001 1010101 10101001 1011101 1110001 10010111 1011101 111 1010101 1010101 1111111 1110101 1111110 1110101 10101 1110101 0110100 1111111 1010101 1111101 1011111 10101100 1110111 10101 1010101 1110101 1011111 0110101 1111101 0110101 1111111 10000101 10101 1110101 1000101 1010101 1110101 1011111 1010101 1011111 1010101 1010111 1010100 11101001 1011111 1000101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1110101 1011101 1010101 101001000 1010111 1010111 1000101 10111101 1100101 1111111 10010111 010101001 1011101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1110111 1110100 1001101 1010101 1111111 1010101 1110101 0111101 1110011 1010111 10010111 1010101 1000101 1000101 1010011 1001101 1111111 10001100 1001010 1011101 1100101 1001101 1111101 1010101 1010111 1010101 1111101 1010101 1010101 1010100 1010101 0010101 0010101 1011101 1011101 1011101 1110011 1000101 1110101 1011101 1010111 0010101 1001101 1011111 1101101 10100111 1011111 1001101 1010101 10010111 1010101 1010101 1010101 10010101 1010011 1010101 1010101 1010011 1011101 1110101 1110001 1010101 1010101 1010101 00101100 1000101 11010001 1000101 1111101 10010111 10101001 10100101 1001101 1010101 1011111 10010001 1010101 1111101 1010101 1110100 1110101 1110001 10110111 1010100 1111011 1011101 10010111 100010 1110111 1010101 10010111 1110111 1000101 1001101 1011101 10101011 1000101 10101101 1010111 1110101 1011011 1110101 1010101 1001001 10111010 1110001 11101001 1101101 1011110 1010101 1011001 1010101 1011101 0010100 1010111 1110010 1011101 1010100 1011111 1110101 10010011 10101010 1110101 0111101 1011101 1011101 1111111 1000111 10101100 11100101 1110101 1101101 1010101 1010101 1011101 1011101 10110010 1010001 101001010 1010101 1010101 1010101 1001101 1011101 1010101 1100101 1010101 1001101 1000111 1010101 0010111 1010111 1000111 1100111 1110101 1011100 11100101 1011101 1111011 10100101 11101 1010010 1010110 1011101 10101000 111 0101101 1010101 1110101 1010101 1100101 1010101 1100101 1001101 1100101 1000101 1011001 1110100 1010101 1001100 1010111 1011111 10010101 1111100 1000101 1110101 1001111 1010001 1010101 1100011 1010101 100100 1110111 11010101 10101101 1110011 1110101 1011111 1011101 10100100 1111110 011001 10011101 11111 1010101 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1852
  • Average number of words per stanza: 329
  • Amount of lines: 485
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, this, love, each, and, her, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words this, then, much, where, ended, is, hear, here, imp are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases more, grace, snake, mind, moan connect the lines.

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