This is an analysis of the poem The Foresters that begins with:
Clear as of old the great voice rings to-day,
While Sherwood's oak-leaves twine with Aldworth's bay:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbccddbbaabXcb eeffggdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101011101 1111110101 01010101010 0111110001 1101011101 1011000101 101110001 1111010101 10010110111 01010001101 1101001101 0101010101 1111010101 0 1111 001 0111010101 00010100001 0101010111 1101110001 0101000101 1111010101 11010001001 11111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 476
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; of is repeated.
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