This is an analysis of the poem Pine-Trees And The Sky: Evening that begins with:

I'd watched the sorrow of the evening sky,
And smelt the sea, and earth, and the warm clover,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aba abaXbabba Xabaabaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,9,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101000101 11011110110 11011011101 1001110011 11111111010 1101011111 110100 111101111110 1011 11110101010 110000101010 11110111101 1001110100 1101010111 101001111010 1111010101 11110011 11010101010 1110110101 10101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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