This is an analysis of the poem The Forest Of Fear that begins with:
The cut-throat darkness hemmed me 'round:
I waited, helpless in its grasp.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcacaadedXeafaffgegeehahaaiaiaadidiiigigXajajjeeeXeXajaafdXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 65,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 11010001 01011111 01111111 11110111 10010101 01011111 11111101 10010001 01111011 11111111 01011110 11010011 11011100 10111101 01110101 01011001 11110101 10110001 11110111 11110101 10011101 11011111 01010101 11111001 10110101 01110101 10010101 11011111 11011111 11111111 10111101 10011101 11010101 11010111 11110101 11010101 10011101 01011111 010011101 11111101 00111111 101110001 01011101 11011111 11010101 11101111 11110101 11110111 00111111 11111101 11000101 01010101 011100100 01111101 11011101 110010111 01010101 11010101 110111001 11010101 01010101 111111110 1111101010 10111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2283
- Average number of words per stanza: 454
- Amount of lines: 65
- 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; and, i, child are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, a are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of The Forest Of Fear;
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- idea of the verse;
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