This is an analysis of the poem The Summit Redwood that begins with:

Only stand high a long enough time your lightning
will come; that is what blunts the peaks of...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbccXdX beabXfdghhchecghhbc XbgXiihf X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,19,8,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101011110 011011010 11 10110011011110 01110100010 100 101010101010 101 01001001 1011 1011010101110 11100010101 11 0101011111100 1011111010 10 010011010010 100100100100 110 0100100110 101111 0101011010101 10111111001 0010110010110 1101010100 1 1111 110110101 111111011 110111001111 1010000110 11010101111 10010011001 010100110100110 110010011 01011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 355
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, trunk, he are repeated.

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

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