This is an analysis of the poem The Dying Sycamores that begins with:
A beauty like young womanhood's
Upon the green earth lies,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba Xcac Xdad Xaea fXff ebXb fdgd ahah gafX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01011100 010111 111111001 110100 01111101 011101 11000011 1001001 01010111 100101 11011111 010001 011101000 010111 10010101 010101 01011111 110110 10010101 110001 0100111001 1110001 111111010 1001101 11011001 1111011 11011101 110111 11110101 011101 11111111 110101 11011011 001101 11100101 1101000
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, nor, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, what are repeated.
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