This is an analysis of the poem The Mulberry Tree that begins with:
It's many's the scenes which is dear to my mind
As I think of my childhood so long left behind;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcdd eeaaaadd ffXXbbddXddccdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01001101011 111011111101 01011001101 1011010110101 01111101011 001011111001 101001111001 101001001101 101111011101 111011101111 101101011101 101011111001 101101101101 111011001111 011011011101 01001001101 101001111011 101101011111 101011111101 01001101001 111101011011 111011111101 111011001101 011001001101 101110011101 111001101111 101001001111 001101101101 101011001011 001001011001 101001111100 111010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 401
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, of, and, his, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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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