This is an analysis of the poem The Beech Tree that begins with:

MY beautiful beech, your smooth grey coat is trimmed
With letters. Once, each stood for all things dear... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddbcb beebfgghfh ciicjddjjj bkkbkaalkhhlX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11001111101 0101111111 01010101001 1101011111 1110111 1111011 1011 0100111 111111 110101100111 1011011101 0111011101 1101010101 10110101011 111101 011000 01101 01101101 0110111 101101110101 1101010101 0101000111 0101110111 01011110001 010111 010101 0101 1101010111 1000101 010011010101 11001110111 0101010101 1101010101 1100111111 101111 11111011 10101101 1011111 100100100101 111101 11010110001 1111101 110101101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 413
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words have, the, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines day is repeated).

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  • summary of The Beech Tree;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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