This is an analysis of the poem The Forest Of Old Enchantment that begins with:
Squaw-Berry, bramble, Solomon's-seal,
And rattlesnake-weed make wild the place:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababbcbcbcdeXedeffffffegegeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101001 110111101 110110101 110111 010100101 10100111 101010111 1101001 1100101101 100101 011110101 1100101 11100111 111111 1001101110 011111 111100101 010111 11011101 010111 111100101 0110111 1111100101 0101101 011110111 1110101 110100101 1100101 11010011 10100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1065
- Average number of words per stanza: 205
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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