This is an analysis of the poem O You, Dear Trees, You Have Learned So Much Of Beauty that begins with:
O you, dear trees, you have learned so much of beauty,
You must have studied this only the ages long! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111111010 111100100101 11101110110 101101 11110110110010 111011100101 10101001010 100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, have, you, lovely are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word lovely is repeated.
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