This is an analysis of the poem The Human Tree that begins with:
Many have Earth's lovers been,
Tried in seas and wars, I ween;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabaab cccdeed bXbfbbf gggXaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011100 1011111 10100111 10111 1100101 1110101 10111 1110001 1010101 11100101 10101 1011101 1001101 10101 0000101 10101000 1111101 11111 10111011 11111111 10111 11101110 10101010 11101110 11111 1111101 1010101 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, thee are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).
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