This is an analysis of the poem Trees In The Garden that begins with:

Ah in the thunder air
how still the trees are! ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa Xb ccXab dXdcXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,5,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101 11011 10111011100110 101010011001 1010101010101 110010101001 1101010001011011011 1000101011101 010101 10110100100111101 101011110011100 1001 10110101110101 11110101111 0010111001010 101111010001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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