This is an analysis of the poem Unterm Weissen Baume that begins with:

Sitting under white branches,
You can hear the wind blowing,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabaXcccaXacXbdbXXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010110 1110110 0100110 1010110 1101110 11010101 10111011 111101 10011110 101110 11001100 0110011 1010110 1110101 0100110 1010101 11100010 1010001 10100010 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
  • Average number of words per stanza: 105
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; and, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word see is repeated.

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