This is an analysis of the poem If It Isn'T What It Should Be that begins with:
When a tree begins to grow...
Is it nurtured to seek approval? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abccdc efaa gdhhfXh Acijbjffkci kffcf ghg hfhhf XkfXlaeblkafck
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,7,11,5,3,5,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 001001010 10100110101 1101100100 010010010 010101 100001010 111010010 1101101001011 00110011001 100001001 1110110 11 01000101 0101010010 101001010 110001 1010101 101100110 10101111001 1011111101010 010101 101101010 01101010100 1011101 1010001010 10110 010111 001010100 101011 0101 11001001 1100 1101010111111 11101010 11111010101 001001010 10010110010001 1101001000010 010011001 01111011001 110 101001011 110001 110001010011 1 1001011101 111001 100010101001 1 101101100 110100101 101000101001 101000101110 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, to, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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