This is an analysis of the poem Palm Tree that begins with:
Palm-tree: single-legged giant,
topping other trees,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXba cdcaXe bebafa Xdaefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 10101 1010100 010101110 110101 010011 01100101 0010001 01111 011011110 110111 0101110 11010101 111110 1101011 11010001 100111 10101 111110111 010101 0100101 0101110010 110111 01010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, the are repeated.
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