This is an analysis of the poem The Forest Way that begins with:
I
I climbed a forest path and found... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbbccc X bbbccc X bbbccc X XbbddX a dddeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11010111 01100101 11010011 11010110 11010101 010001001 1 11010101 01110111 010010101 010100101 11010111 11011101 1 11110001 10010101 11110111 10010101 01011101 01011100 1 01001100 01010101 11011101 11011101 01110101 01010110 1 01011111 11010111 01110111 01111111 10011101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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