This is an analysis of the poem Appletrees that begins with:

I
Sweet appletree, your branches delight me, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXXbcXXXdeeff XXgXhde XXXXegijck XflhXcakaf ahmlacjaaaaib ajlllgcmeXlXdh Xghajagce XgeXmkeXhX XXXCdeXh mXXCdXccem
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,7,10,10,13,14,9,10,8,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110110011 1000101111 1010101010 111100100100 101 1010101 111101111 010010 01010100 100010110 01010001011101 1111111 110000101 010001000101 1 11010010 101010001 10101011101 110111 101100001010 101001001101001 1 11010 10011 101010110 001001 10101 01011 101011010 01111010001 01001100 1 110001001 11011101 101001 11010010100 111011 111011001 111111111 101010101 11010101011 1 110001 100010101 01010111 101101111 11101101010 11100101110 11001111 1010111101 1010011 1110101 11100100110101 0111001011 1 110101010 10110101 1110101 1101101 0011010101 1000110101 1110010110 10111010010 11011111010 111011101110101 0111001111010 1111001110 1101010001 1 110010010 1001001 1011101 111101001100100 11111100101 111111 01010011 10111 1 1100110010 100101001 10100 0110101 01011010100 001010100101 01010100100 0101111 0101111010 1 11001010 10010010100 111111101 011000101010 010101101 110110101000 101111 1 11001010 10010010100 111111101 1100101110 101001001010 010010100110 1111101 1100110101 101010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 363
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 106
  • 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; on, me, i, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, no, a, all are repeated.

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

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