This is an analysis of the poem Hemlock And Cedar that begins with:
THIN sheets of blue smoke among white slabs ... near the shingle mill ... winter morning.
Falling of a dry leaf might be heard ... circular steel...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Metre: 110110111101011010 10001110110011101 10111110111101 1011010010110010100110 111011110101110101001011110010110101110101010100101001011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 584
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 116 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 20
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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- summary of Hemlock And Cedar;
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