This is an analysis of the poem Send Me A Leaf that begins with:
Send me a leaf, but from a bush
That grows at least one half hour...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Metre: 11011001 11111110 010111 111100111 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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