This is an analysis of the poem Pixy Wood that begins with:
The vat-like cups of the fungus, filled
With the rain that fell last night,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XXXb cacX dada efef cfcf Xafa XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011100101 0011111 110110101 1100101 010100111 10100101 110101100 011111 0110110101 110101 010100111 110100 111110101 0101101 110101101 010101 011111101 10110101 111010111 1100111 01001111 0011101 011111001 1110111 01011010 0111101 010010111 010101 010010100 111111 001011111 100111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; on is repeated.
The author used the same word the 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 ' is repeated).
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- summary of Pixy Wood;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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