This is an analysis of the poem A Fallen Yew that begins with:
It seemed corrival of the world's great prime,
Made to un-edge the scythe of Time,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa Xbb ccc Xdd eee ccf ddd ggg dXd fcc XgX XXe hhX hhh hhh iii ggg Xbb hhh eee XXX XfX eee jjj eeXXfccf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0110000111 10110101 1101001 11011001 11010011 010111 1111011101 11010001 0101001 100010111100 010111001 0101010 1111011111 01010101 110101 1011000101 111101010 010101 1101010101 10101111 111111 1111010101 111101001 001111 10010100111 11011100 01111 1101110101 01110110 0100100 0101000100 11000101 0111000 0111010101 11110100 010101 1101010111 11011101 011010 1001011101 01110101 110101 1111111101 11010111 011101 0101110111 1011010011 0100101 0101110101 11110011 100111 1110110111 11110111 110110 0111110101 01111001 111011 0111011101 111011001 111111 0111011100 11110111 111100 10101001100 01100010 0111110 0111010101 011100001 110111 1001111101 11010101 010101 10110010101 011011001 1101010 1101010101 11001101 1111001 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 79
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, breadth are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words its, the are repeated.
The author used the same words the, its at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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