This is an analysis of the poem Craigieburn Wood that begins with:
SWEET closes the ev'ning on Craigieburn Wood,
And blythely awaukens the morrow;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc deceC fgXgC fXcXC dhihC icXcC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001011001 1100100010 1011001001001 110110110 1001110111 110010011 110101111 11001011 110101110 1101110 11011111 1111010 0111 11111111 1111110 11010111 0101010 0111 111100111 111111 11101010 0101110 0111 01100101 0101110 10111001 1111110 0111 11011101 11101011 11111101 1100011 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; beyond, thee, i, na are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is 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 poet repeated the same word c at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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