This is an analysis of the poem When The Green Lies Over The Earth that begins with:

When the green lies over the earth, my dear,
A mantle of witching grace,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeeaAA acacfafagghddhaAA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011100111 0100101 10110100111 100101 1111011101 0010101 1010111101 1101111 00101 00101 1111101001 1001111011 100111 1010101111 1111011 101101001001 1111111 1010110111 0110111 1111111111 0101001 10101 10101 111110101 10111 10101 11111110111 1111101001 1001111011 100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 536
  • Average number of words per stanza: 107
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, have are repeated.

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

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

    The poet repeated the same word dear at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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