This is an analysis of the poem A Leaf that begins with:
Somebody said, in the crowd, last eve,
That you were married, or soon to be.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcb dcdceaea fgfgbgb cfcfhghg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110100111 110101100 111101101 11110111 11101111 110100011 1111100101 1110100101 1100111111 10011111 1101100101 11011001101 11100110101 0111110101 11111001011 010100101 011110111 111010111 1010101111 10111101 011011101 110100111 1110101101 110101111 101101101 010101101 1110100111 0111011011 110101101 1110101111 1110101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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