This is an analysis of the poem The Casuarina Tree (Southern Rhodesia) that begins with:
Whence came you,
Wind from the sea,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBAB cdcdcXcX Xddd eXeX fcfc gfgfXaBAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 1001 101 010001 011101 11110 1010111 11010 100101 11110 11111 10111 10101 001010 101111 111010 110101 01101 101001 111001 101011 001101 10110111 1111 0110110 0100111 1010110 10111 111 1001 101 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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