This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of Wandering Aengus that begins with:
I WENT out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcdcededXefebgfgXfff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 010101011 11110101 11010001 11110101 111101001 11010001 11010101 11110101 110101001 11010101 11111111 010101001 01010001 11111111 110101001 11110100 11011101 10111111 11011101 11011101 11111111 01010001 01010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 821
- Average number of words per stanza: 165
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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