This is an analysis of The Wood by Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
They cut it down, and where the pitch-black aisles
Of forest night had hid eternal things,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaX baba caca dedeXbbbb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11011101110 0101110101 11010101101 0101011100 1101000101 1101011101 10110010001 0100111001 1101011101 1111011101 1001010101 1101110111 1100111101 0101000101 1011111101 1101101101 1011110111 1101111101 01001110101 1101000101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
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