This is an analysis of the poem The Wood God that begins with:
I Heard his step upon the moss;
I glimpsed his shadow in the stream;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede afaf gggg efef ghgh agag dgdg XiXi gdgX jfjf klklXefef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 11011001 11110101 01110101 01110101 11110101 11011111 11100101 01011111 11110111 11010111 01011101 01010111 11110101 1100100100 01110111 11110111 01010101 01111111 01001101 01000111 11111101 00100111 01010101 01110111 11010111 01110111 10111101 11111101 11010101 11011111 11000101 11111111 11110101 01011101 01100101 11011101 01010111 11111101 110111001 11000111 01010111 110011101 110111110 01110101 01111111 10010101 11010111 11010101 11110101 01110101 101010101 11110111 11011101 01011100 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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; i, me, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, the, what are repeated.
The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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