This is an analysis of the poem When Trees Are Green that begins with:
Would you be glad of heart and good?
Would you forget life's toil and care?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX eeeX fgfg aaaa XaXa dhdh iXiX bjbj egeg jdjd kaka
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010110 11011111 11100011 11110101 01111111 010101001 01110101 11000100 11110101 111110111 11011111 01010111 011100111 01011111 11010101 110100101 111111001 11110101 01010111 01111111 010010100 010000101 11010101 01011111 01011111 01111101 11010111 010110101 11010101 11000101 11001101 11011101 11110011 10110111 01010011 01011101 11010111 10000101 01011101 01110001 110100111 10000111 01011101 01000110 11110001 001101001 111101011 01011100
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, on, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words would, the, spring's 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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