This is an analysis of the poem The Pine Woods Of Grijo that begins with:

Our voices break on a stillness bright and strange
Of early morning. Pines upon either hand... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bebe fdfe dbdbXdfdf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11011010111 01010101101 1001111111 11010010101 1101110101 010011100101 110110101101 01001010101 0111111011001 110011101111 11010011101 11100010101 11010101101 010010101101 01110010101 1101110111 110010111101 11110011111 1111101111 010010100111 10100100101010 010011101101 1110010111010 10100101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word our at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Pine Woods Of Grijo;
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  • history of its creation;
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