This is an analysis of the poem The Leaf Of The Poplar that begins with:
It trembled so, the wind set it sailing
it trembled so, how could it not yield to the wind...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abBXBXcdaX eeXXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101011010 010111011001 101 01 101 110001 11101 10011101001 10110 111000 01011 11011 001001010 01010 10011 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines much is repeated).
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- summary of The Leaf Of The Poplar;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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