This is an analysis of the poem Advice To A Forest that begins with:
O trees, to whom the darkness is a child
Scampering in and out of your long, green beards;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBXXbacadecebbfbdecfeeaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010001 10001101111 110111001010 1001011100 1101010111 1111110101 100010111 11101101010 11011011 11011001 01010101 11011101 01011011 1010101 110111 11110111 010010011101 0101110011 01100100101 11011101 0001110100 111101 1101010101 10001101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 951
- Average number of words per stanza: 176
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; you, men are repeated.
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