This is an analysis of the poem Fresh From His Fastnesses that begins with:
Fresh from his fastnesses
Wholesome and spacious,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcdcbXefgaddhhg effchaXXic ccXjdicjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,10,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100 10110 0110110 101011 100110 10110 010010 01001 1001 001011 1110011 100100 1001100 100100 100100 11110 11001 1101000 111101 1101 0010010 110100 10010 01010 1101 101001 101001 10010 110010 1001 1010010 10110 1100100 00010 0011 001011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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