This is an analysis of the poem The Clearing Of The Land: An Epitaph that begins with:
The trees went up the hill
And over it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdd a eXfbbgcgchad e abahibjfkhXfXg e jfkidXlhlid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,1,12,1,14,1,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101 1100 1011000100 1001011 100101 11001001 100011 110001 101 1001011111 11010 010010100101 101 1100111011 1110101 101011101 001 111101111 010111001 010111010 11111 111100111011 1011001 01110111011 0101001101 111110 1001 110 000101010 1000101 101010111 11111101 111101010 0101110 0101001 010101 10100010111 01 0111 001000111110 011001101010 001010 11010111 100 0110001010000 100111110 0111010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Clearing Of The Land: An Epitaph;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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