This is an analysis of the poem Trailing Arbutus that begins with:
In spring when branches of woodbine
Hung leafless over the rocks,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba Xcdc Xebe fbbb acdc Xgfg cheh XbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001110010 1101001 11010010 1010001 10111110 1101001 110110010 01001001 11011010 1001001 11010010 1011111 011011010 11001001 11001110 0100011 11101010 0111101 11001010 0100101 11111011 1110011 11000110 1100101 10011011 11001001 10110110 0100111 110110100 1110101 01010110 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; in is repeated.
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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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