This is an analysis of the poem The Holly-Tree that begins with:
O reader! hast thou ever stood to see
The Holly-tree?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbX cc ddee bbaaff eeddaA ggaaaA ccaaaa hhaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,4,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110101 0101 0111010101 0101 1011010011 1101010100 01010010111 1011 1101011101 1101 1111110001 1101010101 11011101001 1101 1001000101 1101 10001010101 1111000101 1101011101 1101 0111110101 0111 1011011110 1011010101 1111110111 1101 1110001111 1101 1011001110 1011010101 1111010111 1111 01011100101 1111 1101110111 1111010101 11001110101 0101 1111010111 1111 1011110110 1011000101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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 The Holly-Tree;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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