This is an analysis of the poem Among Driftwood that begins with:
Trees haven't come here to die. They've done that
in other forests, on other coasts, having lost ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdeXacXccedXdfbXcfcXbXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101101111 010101101101 111111101 10110111110 11110011001 1011111 010100100 110110100 011111101010 11000100010 1010101 10101101 10101011 010101101 1111111 11111000111 011101101 1010011 01001101010 1001111101 1011111 10111111110 1001100110 111101001 11111110101 1101110101 1101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1420
- Average number of words per stanza: 199
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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