This is an analysis of the poem Bkii:Xiii Nearly, Tree that begins with:

Tree, whoever planted you first it was done
on an evil day, and, with sacrilegious...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abac bdef ddXg eaXh dfXa cide hXXh idgb gfheXbdgf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101011011 11101101010 111111010 0010010101 1110010111 11100100101 011010101 111001010 11100101001 11111011011 111101001 1010110010 11101100101 11101010100 100100100 11010100111 10101010110 101010101011 1110101001 1110101001 11111010010 0110011010 101101100 110101001 010110101 1110001010 101100101 0101110101 01010110010 11010010101 110010110 0101111010 11011101010 00101100111 101110001 0010111101 1010010100 10101111011 01011010 0101011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • 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; he, have, ll, and, woe, of, even are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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