This is an analysis of the poem Poem (‘in The Stump Of The Old Tree...’) that begins with:
In the stump of the old tree, where the heart has rotted out, there is a hole the length of a man’s arm, and a dank pool at the bottom of it where...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a a a a a X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100111011101100101001110111010001011010111001010011111110101 001011101110111101001111110101011011110110100111010111111110101 00101101011011010111011101111010011101001000101110111011101100111111110101 00101110110101110110110111101001111010010101000100111111110101 00101110111011110100111010111010001101110101110101001111111110101 0010111011101111111110110101101111011110001110111101010001 0101010011101011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 250 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 51
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, s, in, where, old, to, see, hand, rain, put, not, but, leaves, because, gathers, your, down, man, arm, length, there, bottom, trees, stumps, at, like, holes are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The author used the same word in 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 because is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word because at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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