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

Could he have made Priscilla share
The paradise that he had planned, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb debe efgf hidi hgeg jhah klml jgjg ehXh Xgng ogog gaba bjhj ebdb eihi nhgh jaXa bfhf mbhb egXg gibi miji jhkh bpgp jkck eobo gmbm plhl aimiXeiji
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11110101 01011111 11011101 11110001 11110101 01111111 11011011 11011101 11101111 110111110 11110101 110101010 1100111 01010100 11010101 11110111 10110100 01010001 01010111 11011001 01010101 11010101 01110111 11010111 01110101 01010001 10110101 11110001 01010101 110101010 01011101 111111010 11110101 11010101 11011100 11010110 11111101 111111010 01010111 010100110 11010101 10110011 11011101 11010100 11010101 11010101 11110111 11010001 11011111 010101011 11111101 0110111011 110101101 01000101 11110001 01010111 11110001 01011001 01011101 10110111 01010101 01010101 11110001 00010111 11011100 11111111 11011111 01111101 01111101 11011100 11011001 01001100 01010111 11011111 11011111 01000101 01010111 11011101 11110001 00110101 11110101 11111111 11011100 11110001 11011101 01100101 11011101 11010101 11111101 01110111 11010111 11110111 01111101 11110101 11010111 01010101 11111111 01010001 11110101 11111111 11011111 11111101 11110101 11110101 11111111 11111001 11110101 11110101 01110101 11010001 01110101 11000101 11010101 01111111 01010101 01010111 11011101 010001110 10010101 101111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; have, and, so, for, you, i, he are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words could, one, the, and, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.

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