This is an analysis of the poem To A Joshua Tree that begins with:
I watch you flare up from the Mojave backdrop,
obstreperous, a lyric of exploding tar—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX abXa XbcXbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111110001011 010001000101 1110100101000100 1011111001 110101010 0101010101 1110010101 0111110011010 01010101111100 111001110011 0010001100110 111110111011 11110110010 10110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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