This is an analysis of the poem Spruce Street, Berkeley that begins with:
If a street is named for a tree,
it is right that flowers...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXX aXX bXX XcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 00101101 001110 1101111 1101110 110101 10111101 01101001 10111010 1011011 011010 10110101 100101 11111101 10111100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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- summary of Spruce Street, Berkeley;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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