This is an analysis of the poem Wild Grapes that begins with:

What tree may not the fig be gathered from?
The grape may not be gathered from the birch?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcadeXafgXhchhhi jehjgfkXelmnomXojnXgmXlkeXjlXXhlhbXckglXnonjagbooogkX hihjXkXmholXeokhcnoX nnfXhojodjko
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,53,20,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010100 0111010001 0111011101 1011000111 10001101110 11011101010 1111011100 1100010101 1101111111 1101011101 0111010001 111101100 11110001010 1011111101 1111111111 10111101111 111110110010 1001010111 1111011001 1011110101 1001110101 1101010101 0101110001 11110101011 1100110100 10111100110 01111101010 10110111011 10110111110 11010001110 1100010111 111101110 11011011110 1111100101 11110110110 11011101010 11110110101 11001101111 11011111010 1101111111 1111010101 0100110111 0010110101 0111101001 10010111010 0110110011 1111011111 1101000101 01010000111 1101011101 1101110101 0111111111 1101110000 1111000011 11010111011 1111011011 10010100111 1111110111 1100110101 1111110101 00010001111 1111011101 10010111110 1101010101 1101010101 1011010110 10111101010 1111110100 10110010001 01111111011 11010100010 1111111111 1111111111 1111010111 0111010111 1110110001 1001010110 1111011111 11011111110 111101110111 10100100010 1101111101 11011111111 1111010101 1111101101 1011010101 11111111110 01110011011 1101111101 1011011111 01101110010 0101110101 1111110101 1101010101 11110011010 1111011001 1111110001 1111000111 1111010101 1111111101 0101011001 01110111011 1111011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1116
  • Average number of words per stanza: 227
  • Amount of lines: 103
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; birch, gathered, from, i, of, grapes, and, to, it, me, you, one, my, down, had, not, heart are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, one, the are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines birch, it, anything are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase grapes connects the lines.

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