This is an analysis of the poem On Ettrick Forest's Mountains Dun {life In The Forest} that begins with:

On Ettrick Forest's mountains dun
'Tis blithe to hear the sportsman's gun,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcc bbddeebb bbffggdd cccXaaff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 11010101 11011001 11010101 110011101 11011111 101111101 11010101 01010101 11010101 100101001 10110101 01010111 11000101 11011101 11010101 11010111 01010101 110100101 1101011 11110101 11011101 10011101 110101001 11110101 11011111 10110101 11010100 10110101 100101101 11011101 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and is repeated.

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

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  • summary of On Ettrick Forest's Mountains Dun {life In The Forest};
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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