This is an analysis of the poem To The Willow-Tree that begins with:
Thou art to all lost love the best,
The only true plant found,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb bcbc cdcdXbaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 010111 100111110 110111 11010101 110101 11110101 1000111 10010101 110100 11111101 010101 11011101 110001 01111111 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
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- summary of To The Willow-Tree;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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