This is an analysis of the poem Those Secrets Kept And Untold By Disrespected Trees that begins with:

I can not afford to look over my shoulder.
Or sit to allow age, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX aXb Xab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010110110 110011 01010111 1110001 111110101 1001001010010 110111011 11101011101 101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; to is repeated.

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  • summary of Those Secrets Kept And Untold By Disrespected Trees;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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