Poem Analysis of I Wonder What The Trees Think by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem I Wonder What The Trees Think that begins with:

Do you see that tree,
With the branches reaching? ...

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Rhyme scheme: abcXbaXde FCXXgdXeedgFC
Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,13,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11111 001010 10011 10001 1110 1111111 1111001101 010101 111101010 1101011 011101 111111 10001011 10101010 111101010 0101101001 111111010 0100100 110100101010 1101011 011101
Amount of stanzas: 3
Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
Average number of words per stanza: 38
Amount of lines: 21
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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, us are repeated.

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I Wonder What The Trees Think by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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