This is an analysis of the poem The Future Of Forestry that begins with:

How will the legend of the age of trees
Feel, when the last tree falls in England?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXbcXddcXaXbddXcbaaeaXXXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001000101 110111010 1010110110 010111010 11111110 10111010 1111001010 100111110 10101010 01001011011 110101010 111101110 111011011 111101101 1101001010 100111110 111101010 100101011 1101011010 100111010 111101010 010100101 01110101011 1010001010 110101110 100111010 010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1078
  • Average number of words per stanza: 185
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; when, what, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.

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