This is an analysis of the poem In The Beech Woods that begins with:

Amber and emerald, cairngorm and chrysoprase,
Stream through the autumn woods, scatter the beech-wood ways:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabb ccdd ccee ffaa gghh ffii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100101100 110101100111 11011110010 11010110110 110101101111 111101110101 110101101101 101111110101 1101011101101 111100100111 111100110010 10011110010 110101100101 100101100101 110111100101 1001101100101 110101101111 100101100101 100101100101 111111100101 101101100101 000100101111 11010100110 11011110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, with, of, she are repeated.

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

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ways connects the lines.

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