This is an analysis of the poem [The Wounded Wilderness of Morris Graves] that begins with:

The wounded wilderness of Morris Graves
is not the same wild west...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcddbXdXeXXXfeab XaXafaaXaaabaXa ffXXaaaaaddXdcXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,15,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101000101 010111 0111 0001110101 00100010 000111 00111 01010 110001010 111 1001101 11100 0010 10111 1010101 01010100 01 000110110100 11010111 11010 1010 1110 011 1101101010 110 111 101010 1110110 101001 1001 1001 01100001 101110 00101111010 1011 101100010 11 111111 101110100 0111 11011 00100 01001010 100101 0101010 100111 110 010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 382
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines streams is repeated).

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  • summary of [The Wounded Wilderness of Morris Graves];
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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