This is an analysis of the poem The Ardennes Forest that begins with:

Cup your hands to scoop up sleep
as you would draw a grain of water...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcdXde bXfeXfeX geXaXXfX ghbccfhf iffdfifhc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111 111101010 101001011 01110101 101011100 0010101 110010110 111010100001 1101010101 11001101001 1100010110 101010011 110101011 0101010 011011001 101010 101101110 11010101 10010010100 111100010 0111010 01010001000 011011001 11001 111011100 001111 01010011 1010111 101011 10110011 0110110 01101010 11010011011 011011101 101101100100 11110110 1110100 11010111 01111110100 101110 110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; for, you are repeated.

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  • summary of The Ardennes Forest;
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