This is an analysis of the poem Trees Against The Sky that begins with:

Pines against the sky,
Pluming the purple hill;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbabaaaA AcacddaA AeaeaaaA AdadffaA aeaeddaa ababggaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 100101 111101 111011 101001 100111 100101 10101 10101 100111 110111 100101 101101 100111 100101 10101 10101 110111 101101 101001 101111 1000101 0110101 10101 100101 0101001 101111 100101 100101 110111 101101 100101 1001001 1101001 101111 1001011 110111 001001001 101111 1001001 110101 111101 11101101 1001101 1101001 00111001 11111111 00001101 1101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sky is repeated).

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

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