This is an analysis of the poem In The Hardt Wald that begins with:
A road disused these many years,
O'er which the grass has grown... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaa bcda adec ddcc bfXb cacca Xgccg fhggh Xhcch eheeh daaaaXabaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011001100 1010111 01110101 11010101 010101 11110101 011011 110101010 110011010 010101 10110101 110111 01010101 11010101 110101 111010101 010101 11010111 010101100 0100101 11110101 00010010 11001101 1110101 0100010 110101011 000101 11110101 11011101 110101 11010111 11111 01110100 11010101 110111 11010101 100111 01111001 11010111 010101 11111111 110101 11010101 11110001 0111001 01010111 110101 01010101 11010101 001001 11010101 110101 10010101 111111001 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of In The Hardt Wald;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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