This is an analysis of the poem Laburnums that begins with:
OVER old walls the Laburnums
hang cones of fire;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb Xb Xa Xb Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110100 11010 10011101 10110 1111111101101 10010010110 0101110110100 11010 110110111100100 0111100111111 0110101110100 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; old, of, and, no, have are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word gardens at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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