This is an analysis of the poem The Mango-Tree that begins with:
He wiled me through the furzy croft;
He wiled me down the sandy lane.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dede bfbf fefe eXeX efef cgcg hihi abab fXfh fbfb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110110101 110110101 11011111 01111101 11011101 01010101 111100101 111100101 10110101 11111101 11110101 01011111 11111101 11011101 11010111 11111111 11010111 11110111 01010101 110101001 11010101 111111110 11010101 11011101 11111111 11111111 11010101 01010101 11111101 01010101 01001101 01010101 01010101 01011111 01011111 11110101 11010101 11111101 01011101 01110111 01010101 11010101 01110101 11111101 11111101 11011101 11011101 01010101 1
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, we, and, they, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, we, i, the, it are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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- summary of The Mango-Tree;
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