This is an analysis of the poem Go Plant A Tree that begins with:

God, what a joy it is to plant a tree,
And from the sallow earth to watch it rise, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaccA addabbA aeeaffA abbagg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101000101 1001010101 10010010001 0101010101 01110100101 1101010101 0101 1011010101 1111000001 1100110101 11001010111 0101000111 1100010101 0101 1101010101 1101110001 0101010101 1101011101 1100010111 1011010001 0101 1011111111 1101010100 1111110101 0111010101 0101010111 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; to, so, of are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word tree at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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