Trees Should Be Leisured by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Trees Should Be Leisured that begins with:

Trees should be leisured.
And given our priority....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAXB XCDD Xebe XAXB FcgX XCDDXFBFBeg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110100 11010100 10101000 010111 110100 11110101 01010001 0010111 110100 111111 110011101 11010101 110100 11010100 10101000 010111 11110 1011111 001010101 1010011 110100 11110101 01010001 0010111 11110 1010111 11110 1010111 1001111 1111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word like is repeated.

    The author used the same word trees at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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