This is an analysis of the poem The Loving Leaves that begins with:
Brown is the hill where the maples grow-
So brown, so calm, so cold and still ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa Xa ab XX X a Xa Xb Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100110101 11111111 101011111 110101111 11110101001 1001100111 110010101 1001101111 100100101 110011111 111010111 010100101 1010101111 110100101 1010111001 1100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; so, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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