This is an analysis of the poem A Hedge Of Rubber Trees that begins with:

The West Village by then was changing; before long
the rundown brownstones at its farthest edge...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefcggchc eefidjXhgggc gkcaffXjlXXi hflbeclhfgcc XXXXeXgkihe hehkaeidXief
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,11,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 011011110011 01110010101 11100100111 0100010101010 101011001001 011110111 1000010101001 010101001111000 1001011111001 011110111 1001001010101 1110110010 1000111110010 1111011001 0101001011011 101101011010111 1100111110 0110101101110 1110101011010001 0011111110011 10101011110010 1110101110110 1110111101111 0100101011010 110111010101 1111001001010 1110111101101 11001110010110 110010101110 101010101010 1010111001001010 00101001010110 1101001101111 100010101100010 11001111100011 11101110101 101111011101 01100100010001 010101101001 1101111011 11010111001 101100111011 101010101101011 11001010010111 101100101010010 10010110110010 00101110010101 110100111 1101100100110 01011010111 11101111101 0101100101000 11110110101 1101011001000 101110111010 00100011100001 10101110111 0011111010110 0100100011 0110110111001 1110010110110 11011011001110 010011100111101 111101001101010 1101111010101 11011101010101101 1010101111101 010110111011 111110011011 01000111011010 11111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 619
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • Amount of lines: 71
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; of, her, in, and, she, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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  • summary of A Hedge Of Rubber Trees;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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