This is an analysis of the poem Girls are coming out of the Woods that begins with:

Girls are coming out of the woods,
wrapped in cloaks and hoods,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AaabXaacXXdefcafagchdbfbaaccbaghXgXfecdfAf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101001 10111 100101110 1010101010 11001011110 10010111 1101001 01010111 1010100100 01001101 0010101101 01110101011 10100110 110111010 010001101 10110110 10110010010 1110101 1101110011 1111010010 11011 11111010 1100101110 10011001 0101101011 11001011 1010001010 11001011100 0010010011 11100110 01101011 0110100110 01011010 001011101 00101101 1101010 110011111 001011001 011011010 01101010 11101001 110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1519
  • Average number of words per stanza: 255
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of are repeated.

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