This is an analysis of the poem Branches that begins with:

The long beautiful night of the wind and rain in April,
The long night hanging down from the drooping branches of the top of a birch tree,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01100100111010 0111010010100010011 101000110100011010 100101011100101 0101010100011111011110101011101111101010 111011100100011010011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 554
  • Average number of words per stanza: 103
  • Amount of lines: 6
  • Average number of symbols per line: 92 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 17
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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