This is an analysis of the poem Birches that begins with:
When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdcebfgbadhffbbfihhccbgXhbhcabhdbXXcXfXdbfbehgjddXjdkihkX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 59,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010111 0101010101 1101110100 1101010101 11111011110 10010101010 1001110101 10110111010 10111101010 1011101101 100110001011 1101010101 110101010110 111001010101 11110111111 1111110101 1111110001 01001011101 1111111111 010101101001 11110011110 010100101011 1101011110 1111100101 1111010111 1101111101 1011011101 1111010101 110011011001 0111010100 1111111111 1101011111 0101110111 1111000101 1001111101 0011010100 0011110101 10011100101 1111011001 10011101001 111111010010 1111010100 01010001010 1101110101 11111100011 10010111010 00110101010 1101010101 11110010110 11110010011 11111111101 1001101111 11110100110 1101110011 1111010111 01101011111 1101111101 11001101101 111110010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2632
- Average number of words per stanza: 510
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to, they, their, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.
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