This is an analysis of the poem The Forest Of Shadows that begins with:
Deep in the hush of a mighty wood
I came to a place of dread and dream,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacaacdadadcbbcefefeeaaXgcgcghiihaaaaaieeihXhXhghhXajajaaaaagagagXjjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 72,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100100101 110010111 110111101 010100111 100101101 1110100101 0101001001 100110101 10011111 100101101 1001001011 110010111 0101011001 11101001101 10110100101 10100100111 010110101 1100101111 110111111 110100111 10100111111 10111111 1100101111 1101110101 010010101 110011111 110110110 111111100 0100100100 1010100111 111100101 11101110101 111011101 0011110101 1111111101 1111111001 11100110111 1011100111 1011110101 1100101101 0110101111 110010101 110010111 1101110111 1011110011 111001111001 11101011110 11110110101 100110100 110100101 111111111 0010111111 110011101 01011111011 1111110101 1100101111 101011011001 110101101 0100101111 1111110101 1011011111 1001011001 1011011001 1101101111 1011100111 10101101101 1011100101 111011110101 101111110 10111111 10111111 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2965
- Average number of words per stanza: 581
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, it, and, shadow, had, heart, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words was, and, till, do, what, look are repeated.
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- summary of The Forest Of Shadows;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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