This is an analysis of the poem Bells Beyond The Forest that begins with:

Wild-eyed woodlands, here I rest me, underneath the gaunt and ghastly trees;
Underneath fantastic-fronted caverns crammed with many a muffled... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaXXaaddee ffggbbhh iijjkkdd bbllmmhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11111111101011101 101010101010100101 101010111010000101 100001010101010101 10101010001011011 101010101001011101 11101010101010101 10101010101010101 10111011100010101 101010101010101010 10101010101010111 10101010111010000 10101111111010111 11111000101011001 11101010001010011 10100110101010111 10111010101010101 10101111101010101 10101110101010111 1010101010100111001 10101110101110101 101010010101011101 00101010101000011 10101010101010101 10101010101010101 11101110101010011 01101110111110001 10101010101010101 11111010101010101 10101011101010101 00001111111010111 10111010101010111 10101010111000101 10111010101010101 11101010101010001 10101010101000101 11101010101010101 10101010111000101 10101010101110001 10101011101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 715
  • Average number of words per stanza: 130
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 71 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 13
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, my, to are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word bells at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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