This is an analysis of the poem Wood-Ways that begins with:

O roads, O paths, O ways that lead
Through woods where all the oak-trees bleed... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcdcdabbaXb X eeaafafacbecbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 11110111 01010101 010111001 11011101 11011111 01110101 01100101 11011101 101010111 011010111 01111101 110111100 11001110111 1 11011101 110011001 01010111 110100111 110110111 11010101 11011101 11100101 11110101 11010111 11111101 10110101 101101101 10101101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; o is repeated.

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