This is an analysis of the poem The Yarrow that begins with:
A Tortured tree in a huddled hollow,
On whose gnarled boughs three leaves are blowing:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababb X babaa X cdcdd X XaXaa XXcacaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,5,1,5,1,5,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101001010 111111110 0101101010 1101001110 10111001110 1 1111101110 101111110010 1101101010 1101001010 00101101110 1 0111011010 0101011110 1001111110 1001011010 01111011010 1 11111101110 101111010 10110101010 10101001010 11101111010 1 0101101010 11001111010 1101101110 1111011110 11010011010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Yarrow;
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- idea of the verse;
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