This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Shingle-Splitters that begins with:

IN dark wild woods, where the lone owl broods
And the dingoes nightly yell— ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabacdededfdghXh ijgjkicikdjdiheHXjigihdddfbdbkhbH
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,33,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011110111 1010101 101011101 1100101 1111001001 001010101 110110101 1110101 1111111101 0100111 100111101 10100101 101011101 1111011 010110101 0010101 0100111011 1101011 1101101001 11101101 110111101 1101011 111101011 1000111 111100101 1101001 111110111 10110101 1010111011 1101101 110110101 0010101 111111011 0100101 110101111 1110101 001011111 1100111 11101101010 1100111 1100100101 0100111 1100100101 11100111 1011110011 1101011 1111110111 0010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2026
  • Average number of words per stanza: 343
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, our are repeated.

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