This is an analysis of the poem On Promising Fruitfulness Of A Tree that begins with:

A comely sight indeed it is to see
A world of blossoms on an apple-tree:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXaaccccbbaaaX d eeccbbaaddaabbff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,1,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010001 0101011101 1111010101 0101011100 1111110101 0111111110 1101010101 0111101101 1101110001 1101010011 1111111101 1101110101 1111111111 1101110001 1101010110 1111100100 0100 0100110001 1111100101 0101110100 1101011001 1101011101 1101001011 1111010111 1001111100 1101111111 101111010 1101110101 1000111100 0111010111 1101110001 0101010111 1101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 470
  • Average number of words per stanza: 88
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; that is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

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  • summary of On Promising Fruitfulness Of A Tree;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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