This is an analysis of the poem The Wood Anemone that begins with:
The thorn-tree waved a bough of May
And all its branches bent... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eaea bfbf gege bXbX eaea dada abab fafX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 110101 01010111 011111 01010101 100101 11011011 010101 11010101 111101 11010101 111101 11011111 0100111 111011001 110001 11011101 011001 11010111 011111 11010101 110110 10001001 010011 10010111 110101 11011101 111101 11110111 111101 110100001 110111 01110001 011111 11110101 111111 11110101 011111 110101011 01101 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, could are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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