This is an analysis of the poem New Leaves that begins with:
In the kitchen window
the coleus I cut down to stumps...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc bbbcb dd ddbca bX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,2,5,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001010 010011101 011011 01011001 11 0110 10011 11001 0101 010 010 01 10100 10 101 111111 111011 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 72
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, looks are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of New Leaves;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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