This is an analysis of the poem The Orange Tree that begins with:
The young girl stood beside me.
I Saw not what her young eyes could see: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa baba cdcd eaeA dfdf gcgc hahA igig ijijXaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0111011 111101111 01111001 11100101 00110111 011001001 100100101 10010001 11111001 001101001 11110101 00100100 10011111 11110111 10011101 01010101 111111001 10111111 1001110 110000101 01110101 10010001 11010011 10010001 10011111 11011101 10010101 01010101 00110101 10000101 10111001 10011101 000100111 11001101 000100101 01100101 10011111 10110101 11110111 110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The author used the same word is at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase why connects the lines.
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