This is an analysis of the poem In A Wood that begins with:

In a Wood
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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbcdXdc eXefghgf ijijkkkj XiXilllXXahahaaah
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001 111111 1011 101101 1111 101111 1111000 100101 1001 111101 1010 100111 1001 101101 1001001 100101 0101 110100 1111 100101 0101 101101 101101 101101 1111 100111 1111 111101 10001 1001101 100101 1000101 0100 111111 1101 111011 1011 111101 110101 111111 1100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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