This is an analysis of the poem Aspects Of The Pines that begins with:

Tall, somber, grim, against the morning sky
They rise, scarce touched by melancholy airs,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa abab cXcX dadaXdbdb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 1111110101 11010010100 1001010001 1101110101 10001010101 01010100101 1011010111 0101010100 11110000110 11110111001 1011001101 1111010111 1001110101 1111010101 1101110001 110010100101 10110101001 01111101001 11010100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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

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  • history of its creation;
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