This is an analysis of the poem Trees that begins with:
IN the Garden of Eden, planted by God,
There were goodly trees in the springing sod,—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffaaffggXbhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100101011 1010100101 10101111 010100101 101100111 11110101 0100100101 010110101 11010111 10111101001 10110101 1100111111 111011011 11010101 110101101 0110100101 1100100111 10101001001 110111101 00100100101 1010011101 110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 865
- Average number of words per stanza: 170
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, for, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, trees are repeated.
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- summary of Trees;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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