This is an analysis of the poem Deep In The Forest that begins with:

I. SPRING ON THE HILLS
Ah, shall I follow, on the hills,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a ababb ccXcc adadX XeXee fgfbg ahXhh Xeaee i jajaaii kfkffiI aaaaaiI ihihhiI lmlmmiI lalXaii n hhggiiggncffiiXl nniihhlXnnn X ahahhah Xa ififfXfff Xllalhahh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,7,7,7,7,7,7,1,16,11,1,7,2,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 101101 11110101 00111110 11111101 101010 1001110 01111100 1000010 01110100 0111110 1101010 01001110 10010110 11010110 0101110 111111 01011000 1111110 11110100 0101110 1111110 101011111 0111011 01011111 0111010 1101001 01011100 1101110 01011000 1101010 0101010 11010100 0111110 01010110 1101010 1111110 1111 11010101 100101 11110101 110111 11 01010101 11 01011101 011101 11110101 010111 01 11011101 01 10010001 110001 11110101 110101 11 01010111 01 01110101 011111 11111101 011111 11 01110101 01 10110111 110111 11111111 110001 01 11010101 01 11110101 1111001 11010101 111101 11 01111101 11 1011 01010101010101 101110100010101 001000101010101 001010101010101 101011111010101 101011101110101 1110010100010101 111010101010001 101100101010101 001011101010100 101010100010101 101110101010101 111010100011001 1010101001110001 1110101000101000 111010101110101 111110100011101 01000101110111 101010101011111 1010001010100001 111010100111001 001000101110001 101010101110101 011010100010101 101010101110101 10101010010100001 001010101010001 10100 11010101 01011001 11010111 010100111 11010101 01110101 11011111 01010101 01010101 11011101 010011111 01111101 11011101 01011111 011111010 110100101 01011111 01110101 110111000 01110011 10110101 10010101 11011101 11111111 11010101 010010111 11000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 135
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; hills, to, you, of, and, whose, with, how, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, whose, whom, how, with are repeated.

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

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

    The poet repeated the same word pan at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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