This is an analysis of the poem Apostrophe that begins with:
TO AN OLD TREE.
WHERE thy broad branches brave the bitter North,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbccddeeffeegghheeiijjeeaakkllfXeeaXddXddcejjjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,47,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111 1111010101 1101000101 11000100101 1101010101 11010100101 10001011101 1001011101 110100111001 1001010101 0101010101 010010110010 101001001010 0101110101 11111010101 0101010101 0101000101 11110101001 0111000111 1111010101 11010000101 11011010101 110100101101 1010101011001 11010100101 1101010101 110011100101 1101000101 1101010111 0101010111 101111001001 1001110101 1101010110 1101000111 0011010101 1101010101 0100010100 1110001001 11010110001 11001010101 11010011011 0101110101 11000111110 1101010101 1011010101 1111010101 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 673
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; in is repeated.
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