This is an analysis of the poem Deep In The Quiet Wood that begins with:
Are you bowed down in heart?
Do you but hear the clashing discords and the din of life?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXabXXbXaXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111101 11110101010101 1101100101 1111010101 0101000101 1111110101 110101011101 100101111111 110101001110101 11111011000101 0101000101 010010001101010 1011101001 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 639
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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