This is an analysis of the poem The Heather Branch that begins with:

Out of the pale night air,
From wandering lone in the warm scented wood,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXcabc deeffdXXeegXhigijXj kbkgbglgleegkmmbbgbegfebjff anaajjneXeXddllhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,19,27,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 100111 01001001101 0101001101 0101101101 011101 0100110111 10010111001 1111100101 0111010101 11111111 1101101111 11110101 1111010101 1111110111 10001110011 10100111000 111101010110 1111100111 0111001 10010100110 0100101100 110001 11011011010 111111010 111101010 1101011101 0100110110 1001011101 10110111 010111 0101000101 0100010101 1011110100 1110001101 111011 0101 011000101 0111010101 0110110111 100111 01010100101 1011101100 1001011101 1110111001 10011101001 111101010110 0101110101 1001001111 10110111001 10010000101 1001010111 1011 0101010111 1101010101 1010000101 1111111101 1111111011 111101 110111 11000101 1011000111 1101010101 1111011111 1111111011 1101110011 101110 010011111 1001101101 1111111111 11010011 11010000111 1101100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 699
  • Average number of words per stanza: 128
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; of, thee, thy, and, this are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, for are repeated.

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  • summary of The Heather Branch;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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