This is an analysis of the poem Hill-Side Tree that begins with:
Like a drowsy, rain-browned saint,
You squat, and sometimes your voice...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabXcbcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 1110111 0101111 01101010110 0101011000101 111101010 110110110010 11011110010 111110001 001011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 430
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Hill-Side Tree;
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