This is an analysis of the poem Binsey Poplars that begins with:
My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled,
Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacbXcc ddbeeffbegbgXbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110101 1110010101 111111 0011100101 1111 1100100 111111 1111011001101 10111111 11111 1110101 1100110 01010110 11011101 101011111 1110111 010110 11111 10101010100 11110111 101010 010101 1010101 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 947
- Average number of words per stanza: 143
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; felled, we, scene are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines scene is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase quelled connects the lines.
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