This is an analysis of the poem The Birch-Tree that begins with:
Rippling through thy branches goes the sunshine,
Among thy leaves that palpitate forever;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbb adced XXXfX egdgg aedee XXbff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101011 01111100010 10010101110 011011001110 10001011111010 1101010010011 11010101010 10010111010 110111001010 11110010101110 10101110100 1101010001 1011111111 110010101010 111101111101 11010101010 11111100010 10110101010 11111100110 01011101000110 11011101010 1101110101000 111111110010 101101110110 1101110101000 10110111010 1100011110 11111101010 11001100110 1101010001010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; thy is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thou is repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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