This is an analysis of the poem Green Thumb that begins with:
Shake out my pockets! Harken to the call
Of that calm voice that makes no sound at all! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccc ddccaaee ffaaaacc eeffgghh ccccaaii jjjjcchh Xbccbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010001 0111111111 10111111001 1101101101 1111111110 1111011111 0100100101 1001010011 01110101101 01110000101 1111010011 1111110101 0111011101 0101100101 1101110101 1111010101 11110010111 0111010101 1111011111 0101000101 1101010111 0111111111 1111100101 1111010111 1111010101 1001000101 10111101001 1111011001 1111111111 110011000101 100011101101 1101011101 10110011111 1001111101 110110101011 101110101101 1111110101 1011001110 1011111101 11110011111 1101110101 1001000101 0111011101 1101010101 1111011101 1111110101 0111110111 1101111111 1101110100 1101100111 1101111101 1101101001 0101111111 1001000101 0101010101 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; my, we, i, and, have, green are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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