This is an analysis of A Coign Of The Forest by Madison Julius Cawein.

The hills hang woods around, where green, below
Dark, breezy boughs of beech-trees, mats the moss,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbabbabb bbXbbcbXc debdebdeb
  • Stanza lengths: 9,9,9,
  • Metre: 0111011101 1101011101 1001010111 0101111101 0111010101 1101010101 0101111001 1111010101 0111110001 1101011111 0101110100 11111010100 0101010101 0111011111 0110010101 1101010111 0101010111 0111010101 1111011111 1011000101 111101111 0111010101 1101111001 00100100001 1101110001 1100011101 1101010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 27

Repeated words/phrases

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