This is an analysis of the poem To An Oak At Newstead that begins with:
Young Oak! when I planted thee deep in the ground,
I hoped that thy days would be longer than mine;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xaca ddde efef fbfb cgcg bhbh iaia jaja kgkg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111011001 11111101011 111001011001 11011001001 1111110100 101011011101 111111011011 101101101111 111111111010 010110010110 111111110010 10101111101 11011101101 101111111101 11111001001 11101101011 11111111101 11111001011 01011001101 11000001011 11111101001 11111101101 11011011101 11111011001 11010000101 11111001001 111101001011 01011101101 11001111101 1001011011001 101011001001 01101101011 111001101001 101001011001 11011111001 01011001001 11011101101 01111101101 11111101001 110010010001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, my are repeated.
The author used the same words oh, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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