This is an analysis of the poem Who Amongst Us Then Will Be Left To Cheer And Dance? that begins with:
...this leaf is not of Maple.
Nor is this Pine like the Oak! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcbddefeghghgggXg ifii hjjhjhfkddld fmcfdfcXjlfdXff bbbmbdcX hmmeh dhffdg icccfie ibf kX XXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,4,12,15,8,5,6,7,3,2,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010 1001101 111111111 1011010 1010101 11010101011 0111010010 11100111010 111101 111011 10010 110110101 101111010 111111101 1110011001 1111101 11111011101 1110101 11 101 110110110110001 1111010 111001101 1011 101010101 110001010 10011011101 1001011010001 110111001010 1111101 10110011101 10001010 101010100 1101010010 101001010001 1010001001 11100101 1101010 101000101 10111010 0011 11010001110 10101011000 1101011 11111110 01001 01101 011100001 00101 111110010 0100100011 11011 0010100111 01010100110001 1001100110110010 110010010101 1111010 0111110 101010 11011010101 101010 111001010 10101011 001000101 10111001 0111011001 11 110110111 111001 110101 11 101000101 0100101 010101 101011 101100111 1001101 0101 1011 110 11110100 1111101 1110 10
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; i, to, what, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to, a are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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- summary of Who Amongst Us Then Will Be Left To Cheer And Dance?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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