This is an analysis of the poem An English Wood that begins with:
This valley wood is pledged
To the set shape of things,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabbXabbabccbccabdadaaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 001101 110001 111101 111111 110111 11010 110001 101101 110101 0011 110011 110101 111101 111101 1111001 1101 110101 11011 100111 011111 110101 010111 011101 110111 111101 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 717
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 27
- 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; no is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, the, small are repeated.
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