This is an analysis of the poem What Do We Plant? that begins with:
What do we plant when we plant the tree?
We plant the ship, which will cross the sea.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aabbaa Aabbaa AaXXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111101 110110101 110101001 110100101 010100101 110111101 111111101 110101111 1101001001 110100101 011101110 110111101 111111101 010111101 1101111001 110111101 110100111 111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, plant are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word what 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 tree is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word tree at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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