This is an analysis of the poem Planting A Sequoia that begins with:
All afternoon my brothers and I have worked in the orchard,
Digging this hole, laying you into it, carefully packing the soil....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXa cdaeX feagX bbeff agdXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111011110010 10011010001001001 110001011110100010 1010111011 011110011 010001010101010111 110101101101111101 1111011010110011010 01101001010101 01001101010 1011100110111010 0100100100110 10011010101011011 110101100111 011101100100 1011111110111 1010011011 11000101110101001 111001000110101 010101011 11110001110011101 1001110100111 0101010001 111010110111100001 10010010011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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- summary of Planting A Sequoia;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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