This is an analysis of the poem If Still Your Orchards Bear that begins with:
Brother, that breathe the August air
Ten thousand years from now,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX cdcd dedeXafa fXXXXfbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 110001 110011101 1101010 010111001 110111 11011100 110001 11110011 110101 110010111 111101 100110011 111111 11111111 111111 01110111 110111 01010001 1111010 11101101 111011 01001100 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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