This is an analysis of the poem Woodman And Echo that begins with:

Close Echo hears the woodman's axe,
To double on it, as in glee,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdbbcXedXfgffgababhaaXfaffa ehbXebddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 01010101 01011101 01000101 1111 1111 0101 0101 1101 0111 0101 1011 110010 1101 1111 1111 1101 0111 11110111 11001101 01011111 11010111 1101 1101 11010101 1111 1100 11000101 0111 1101 01000101 1111 0101 01001110 1101 1111 11011101 1101 0101 11010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 465
  • Average number of words per stanza: 92
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
  • 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; we is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.

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