This is an analysis of the poem Michael Oaktree that begins with:

Under an arch of glorious leaves I passed
Out of the wood and saw the sickle moon...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc bdeceefghigcihhajjX gkeclmkbnmhhkcECokk ebnecpbcafaahkehb pakkbaabiikbibiecbaflekob oeakbiqaereeadkaqehdkbe aIbkepapboireEEm bbdheXkikFsC akekt pfgpkc kffb kFccmIcqXXoeEEa aeebesbblog iekiatrhkgiekneeeepkeqdg aeegareabkcXpkkcEc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,19,19,17,25,23,16,12,5,6,4,15,11,24,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10110100111 1001110101 10011100111 01010100101 1001011100 1001010101 1101011001 01000010001 1101010001 0100110101 1101110101 01001010101 11110101001 01110100001 0110011011 0111011111 10110111001 1101010001 1101000101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010100 1001011101 0101110001 0111100101 0011011001 1111010111 110110111 1111011111 0101010101 10010011111 1101011101 1001110101 10010010111 01010101011 01001010111 0011110001 0101010001 1011111101 0101010111 1101110111 1101010101 1001011101 111111011 1100110100 1111011101 1101010101 1101100101010 0101010111 1111010101 1110010101 01111100101 1111011111 1101001101 1011011101 1000011111 10111101001 0111000101 1101011111 1111010111 0111110101 01010111001 1101011111 01111101001 1111110101 1001011101 0100010111 11010100100 1111010001 1111000111 1101010101 11010111001 1001110101 1111010101 1000101101 1111011111 1101110011 1101010111 11011101011 1001110101 1101011111 1001110111 1100110101 110110111 1101110100 0111011101 0111010111 0101010001 0101010101 01010100010 1111011101 1101010001 01011010011 010110101001 0101110111 1111000111 0101010100 1100011111 1101100101 01010110010 1101011011 01000110111 01011001010 0101111101 1101110101 0101010101 1111010101 1101010101 01001011101 1011111111 0101110101 1010010101 1111110101 0101010101 1101011001 1101010101 1101010111 0101010111 1111100101 01010101010 1011010101 11110001101 1111110111 0001100101 1111010100 10110101001 01010001010 1101010100 1001111111 1111011101 1101011111 0101010001 0100010111 0101010001 0111011111 01001010111 1101011100 1111000111 1001001011 0101100001 1101100101 1101011011 0110010111 0001010101 0101010101 110110111 0101110111 1111001111 1100111111 1101011111 0101010001 0100011101 0100010001 1111011001 1101010101 01001011101 011111110010 1011010111 1100010100 1101010111 1011110101 01010101010 1011010101 1111000101 1101111101 01110111101 0111111101 1101010001 1001111111 11010010001 1101010001 0101010101 10111111010 100001101010 1001010101 1101110101 01011101111 01110010001 1101001101 0101001101 1001010101 0101100101 1001011111 01001000111 10110101111 1001011111 1011110111 01110011101 01011100101 110101001010 1000111101 1101111101 0101011100 0101010001 1111010011 1101100111 11111100010 111110100100 0111011111 1001010111 0111010101 1011000101 11110101001 0101110001 1111011101 0111111001 1001110011 1111011101 1011110101 1011111001 1011010001 1101010111 1101010111 10010010111 0011110001 0100110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 570
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 216
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hush, he, many, and, i, have, we, so, our, how, of, all, through, breaks, as, she, his, one are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, bowed, we, our, strange are repeated.

    The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hush is repeated).

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  • summary of Michael Oaktree;
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