This is an analysis of the poem The Walnut Tree that begins with:

my head foaming clouds, sea inside me and out
I am a walnut tree in Gulhane Park ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBcd BXXecfafeXBd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 11101101111 1101110101 1111111111 101101001001 1101110101 111101011010 11111101100 111101011 111111111010 111011010111101 11111110010 111011010111101 11101011111 1101110101 101101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; my, i, one, hundred, thousand are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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