This is an analysis of the poem The Birch Trees that begins with:
Blessed is the birch in the valley of Gwy
Whose branches will fall off one by one, two by two...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXab XXXXX XXXXXXaXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001001 110011111111 000111000100100 101001000100101010 111101100 110101010 11111 01010100 10010100 10110100110010 11011101 0101111 111001011 10010010100 10111100100100 1110001100 10100110101010 101010100100101001 1010001010101110 101000101010100 10001001110010 10011011010 010100001111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 23
- 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; of, and, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word blessed at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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