This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of The Trees And The Master that begins with:
Into the woods my Master went,
Clean forspent, forspent.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbbbbbXaabbaaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00011101 11010 00011101 100111 1010101101 010110101 01110101 1000111 10011101 111110 10011101 100111 11111111 010011111 11011111 1100111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; forspent, him, to, last are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, last are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word came at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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