This is an analysis of the poem [he Is Pruning The Privet] that begins with:
He is pruning the privet
of sickly sorrow desolation...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXXXXbXabcaX cXa XXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010 010101010 01100111111 01101011101 01010010100101 101100 01001111100010 111101001 101010110010 0010101010 001100011010 110100101001 011111001011010 101010010 1011111010 10100010 110010010010 11010011010 111010011101 111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long 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; clip, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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