This is an analysis of the poem Poplars that begins with:
Against the pale autumnal air,
The golden poplars burn and flare....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa XX bb cc XXXaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 01010111 11011111 10010100 10000101 01011101 11011101 11000111 10110110 01010111 11110101 01010101 01110001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Poplars;
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- idea of the verse;
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