This is an analysis of the poem A Forest Flute that begins with:
I Heard a reed among the hills,
A woodland reed of music where,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc dede cfcf cgcg hghg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 01110101 11110101 100010101 110101001 10010001 10011101 100101101 11110101 11010111 01110101 110001101 11010111 11010101 11010101 01000111 11111001 01010111 11001001 0100100101 11001101 11011101 111100101 01111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; in, and, of, i 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 i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Forest Flute;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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