This is an analysis of the poem Moss And Fern that begins with:

Where rise the brakes of bramble there,
Wrapped with the trailing rose;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcc dedeecC bbbbbcC cfcffcC ghghhcC gbgXbcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 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
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word whose 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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