This is an analysis of the poem The Fallen Elm that begins with:
The popinjay screamed from tree to tree,
Then was lost in the burnished leaves;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcdc efef dede Xgbg ebeb fefe hfhf eiei eXed fbfX didi gjgj XdXd gdgd hfhX hdXd klkl imim jeje dgdg hghg baba nbnb afaf dada cfcf hdhd emem glgl hchc lflf dede ofof eded gigi fgfg dede XeXe fgfXXglgl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010010101 11100101 0111110101 101011001 1110010111 00111111 010101101 1100101 111011111 1110101 010110101 10101111 1111010111 00111111 0010110111 0100101 10110101010 1110111 0010100101 10100101 11110100101 11101101 10101100101 0110101 1010010101 01100101 1010110111 00110101 10111100101 1100111 101101101001 1010111 101101101001 10111111 110111111 1111101 010110101 11011011 0110110111 10100111 11101101001 1101101 1110101011 001011010 1010101111 10100101 0100110111 10100101 1101111101 1110111 10100110111 10100111 110110101 1111101 0100101101 10100101 1010100111 0110111 10111100111 0101101 111111101 1101101 1111101111 1101111 1110110101 101011001 1011100110 10100101 1010100101 1110111 1010100101 10100101 1011100111 1011111 1010010101 1010111 10101000111 1011111 111110101 11101001 1111110101 1010101 110110101 010101 1010110111 10100111 10101101001 10100101 1010111111 1101101 11011101 1111101 110110111 11101111 10111101011 1101101 1010111111 10111111 111111101 101001001 1110100111 10101111 1111110101 11111111 0011111101 10110101 11011101001 10110101 1111100111 1100111 10101100111 10101111 1111010111 01101001 11101101101 0100101 111101001011 1110101 110011111 101001001 110010111 1101101 011110101 1010111 010011101 00100101 1010101011 10100101 1111101111 11100111 1111110111 10100111 1111111111 11000101 0011110101 0101111 1010111111 11101111 111011011011 11010101 1111100111 1101111 0010110101 10110101 1110100101 1010111 111110101 10101111 1111110101 1100111 111110101 11110101 110101111 1110111 1110010110 1101111 1101101101 111001111 10111111111 11101101 10100101111 11101111 1101011001 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 41
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 164
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, to, their, one, my, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, though are repeated.
The author used the same words and, when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Fallen Elm;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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