This is an analysis of the poem Dark Wood, Dark Water that begins with:
This wood burns a dark
Incense. Pale moss drips...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb abc Xcc dde Xbf fce XXe dcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101 01111 01111 00010 10011 11110 01101 11010 00110 01011 10010 11011 10011 10010 11011 10011 10010 11011 10110 10100 11001 10111 10010 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 64
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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