This is an analysis of the poem The Golden Mile-Stone. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) that begins with:
Leafless are the trees; their purple branches
Spread themselves abroad, like reefs of coral,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcc deaf cfag hXii jaei aaei jejf cahd kagi cjic kebj Xaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111010 1010111010 1010 0011001011 0010100010 101000010010 1010 10010001010 101010100101 1110101010 10110 10010101010 1010101110 11100001011 1010 1110101000 10101111110 1010100010 1010 0011011010 10101111010 1010101011 1010 0010101010 10101100110 0110111010 1110 1010101100 10101111110 1110011010 1010 1011110010 1110001011 0010101110 10010 1011001011 00101001110 10101010011 1110 1110110111 1011101110 1010001010 1111 0010001011 1111101000 1110101010 1110 1010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; he, with are repeated.
The author used the same word by at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word them at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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