This is an analysis of the poem The Grave-Tree that begins with:
LET me have a scarlet maple
For the grave-tree at my head,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb adXd bede fgfg hggg edid fcec fbjb fgdg jkck cgfg jhjh jgXg Xggg hici icXcXaaja
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1011111 00101010 0001111 11101010 1011111 10101110 1111011 10101011 10101001 101010010 1010100 00101010 10101110 10101010 11101010 00011010 1011101 11101010 1110111 10111010 1010111 11100011 1011101 11101010 1011101 11111010 1010101 11001110 1111001 00111010 1011101 11111110 1010101 10101011 1010101 10001010 0010001 10101010 1010101 10101110 1010001 11111010 1011001 00001010 1011101 10101110 1010101 10101010 1010001 11111010 1110101 11110010 1000101 10111010 10101001 11110011 1001101 10111010 1010101 11111011 0010101 11101010 1010111 11101010 10100111 10101010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 68
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.
The author used the same words let, it, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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- summary of The Grave-Tree;
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