This is an analysis of the poem The Palm-Tree that begins with:
It wav'd not thro' an Eastern sky,
Beside a fount of Araby;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcc ddeeff eeaaee bbggdd gghhii bXaajj kkllhh aaiiffXaabbii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 01010100 01111101 011101001 10010111 101010111 11011111 11001101 10100101 101101011 110100101 10011101 11010111 110010101 01110101 01010101 110010101 01000111 111101010 110111010 110100101 11011101 11110101 10010011 11011101 11010111 11010101 100100110 01011111 01010111 11010101 100010101 11011101 110111001 11011111 11010101 01010101 01000101 01000111 11010001 10011101 110001101 01010111 1100101001 01000101 01110101 110100101 11010111 1111101 010010101 110001011 010100101 11110111 01111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of The Palm-Tree;
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