This is an analysis of the poem In The Orchard that begins with:
LEAVE go my hands, let me catch breath and see;
Let the dew-fall drench either side of me;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaB aabaB ccbcB ddbXB eeXXB ffbfB ggbgB bbbbB aabaBXffbfB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111111 1011110101 1101110111 11001010001 1111111011 0101110111 1011011101 1101111101 1011110101 1111111011 1101110111 1101111101 1101111101 0101110111 1111111011 1111111110 0011010101 11011101101 1111010100 1111111011 11110101010 01010111010 0101110100 1111011101 1111111011 1111111111 1111010101 1001011111 1011010101 1111111011 1110111011 1011010111 11001010101 1101011101 1111111011 1111111001 1111000101 11111111001 11111101001 1111111011 1011101111 1111110111 1111010101 1111101111 1111111011 1101110111 1111011111 1111100111 1111111101 1111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, my, love, and, ah, now, i, sweet are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ah, and, no are repeated.
The author used the same word ah at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word soon at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of In The Orchard;
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