This is an analysis of the poem Wasteland that begins with:
Briar and fennel and chinquapin,
And rue and ragweed everywhere;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabaa XcXcc dadaa dedee cecee cdcdd bbbbb Xfaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101100 11111101 011110101 1101101 101101 010110101 10100101 001010010 100100 1100101 11011101 1101101 0101001101 1010101 111011 11011111 110101 110111101 00100100 111101 10011101 101111 010100101 0101101 1100101 101111111 010111 111111111 0100111 0010111 111011111 1011111 101011101 111101 1110101 010100110 111011 110011101 1100101 100111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, of, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Wasteland;
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- idea of the verse;
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