This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Cicadas that begins with:
Yesterday there came to me
from a green and graceful tree ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaBCcAdcXdeFfFf aBaCcAfXcXXeFeFe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 0011101 11100100 10101010 11111010 00101101 10101010 11101110 10101010 11111110 10101010 10001010 10101010 11111010 11101010 1011101 11100100 1011101 10101010 11101010 00101101 11101110 10101110 10101010 01101010 10101010 10001010 10101010 11111010 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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.
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