This is an analysis of the poem The Leaf that begins with:
A little oak leaf tore off from its branch
Was driven o'er the steppe by a cruel gale;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa abbc XXXd XdbX bbbb cXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101111001 110100110101 1111000101110 01001010111 0111110111 010011011 101111001 1001011001001 01001101011 1011101010 1100110110111 01011100111 1101100101101 011110010110 11100100111001 1110100101100 1011111001101 10110110110011011 11101111111111 01001111011 110001111101001 010101111111 1111001001 011010110110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; without is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines shore is repeated).
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- summary of The Leaf;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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