This is an analysis of the poem Arbor Vitae that begins with:
Beside the golden gate there grows a tree
Whose heavy fruit gives entrance to the ways...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcabbc dedeXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101011101 1101110001 0101011111 0101010100 0111010100 1001001101 0101010001 1001010100 1101110111 1011101101 1100010101 1001011111 1011011100 11010111001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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- summary of Arbor Vitae;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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