This is an analysis of the poem Discord In Childhood that begins with:

Outside the house an ash-tree hung its terrible whips,
And at night when the wind arose, the lash of the tree ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX bccb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111101001 1111010101001 11101101 11000111000 0101110010100101 100100110101 0011101100101 0101001001101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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