This is an analysis of the poem The Solitary Woodsman that begins with:
When the grey lake-water rushes
Past the dripping alder-bushes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccdceede ccac bbXb ffdf bbgb bbab hhih aaXa jjij ggag aaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 10101010 10100101 00111110 1010101 1010101 10110010 1010101 10101010 10101010 10101011 10001010 1011101 1010101 10110010 0010001 1011011 1010101 101110100 0010101 1011111 0011101 10111010 1110101 1110101 1110101 10001110 1010101 1111101 0011101 10101110 0010101 01010101 1011101 10101011 1010101 1010111 1010111 11101110 1110111 1010001 1010101 1010001 1000101 11101010 00101010 1010101 10101010 1010101 1010111 10111011 1000101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, when are repeated.
The author used the same words when, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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