This is an analysis of the poem Pan With Us that begins with:

PAN came out of the woods one day,—
His skin and his hair and his eyes were gray, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabb cccdd eeeff ggghh iXiee jjjaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11100111 0110110101 010010101 110011101 110101101 110010101 101010101 010101001 111111111 11111101 01111111 001101101 11010111 111100101 111101111 11011101 01111101 1010110111 1010010101 010011111 1010110 111101001 010100100 10101101 101010101 1010101 101111101 111110111 11000101101 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, of, , in, he, for are repeated.

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