This is an analysis of the poem Forest Dwellers that begins with:

Men who have hardly uncurled
from their posture in the...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabXbb XXbccab bXXccXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110100 011000 110111 01101010 001110 1100101 111111 110101 001111 110110 11110011 101001 11010001 1001010101 1001000110 01110100 0110111 111001010 0010011 11111 1111110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.

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  • summary of Forest Dwellers;
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  • history of its creation;
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