This is an analysis of the poem The Leaf And The Tree that begins with:
When will you learn, myself, to be
a dying leaf on a living tree?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffaaff gghhi ijjhhffkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111100 010110101 1010101 1011111 1010001 11011111 11110101 10101001 11010101 1001111001 11110001 01010101 10110101 11100101 01011111 01010101 1110011 011100101 11011101 11100111 11011111 01000101 11011101 010010111 11011101 11010111 11111101 01011101 01010101 10010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 349
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; that is repeated.
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