This is an analysis of the poem The Giving Tree that begins with:
Once there was a tree....
and she loved a little boy....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccdecceffaXGaXhafaaXfahXagchfXicAGBfeaeXafhjXajXiX cAjGBegefXXaXXXeaaXeaGg bhXklXeaXlXkaaXaakdXXadXkfkXfG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 53,23,30,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 1110101 11010111 1111001 110001 1110010 111101 110010 1110 11111111 111110 111001 101101 101 101110 1111 101110 10111001 111011001 10111111 11111101 1011101101 11010 111101111 01 11011111 11110 11010111 1110 11101110 111011100 0101101101 10010 1101110 1110010 110001 101110 1011011011 10111 11110111 101101 111111111 1101101010 11110011101 1101011111 110111110 111101 1111011 111110101 110011 11111 110110 1110010 110111010 110001 0101 101110 1011011011 11111 011110 11101 11110 111 11111101 101 110110 1110101 111101 1111 1101101 111101 1010 11011101 11011101 101110 1110 110011 011101 11101 10111110 1011 110110 11111 110101 110110 10111 101101 111101 110101 11011101 11011 1111001101 1110101 111111110 111101 111111 1110 1111011101 101010111 111010 1101100 01111111 111100110110 11111111 1010 101110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1001
- Average number of words per stanza: 216
- Amount of lines: 106
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, boy, tree, my, have, house, want, ', said, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, 'i, 'come, i are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines my, ' are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.
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- summary of The Giving Tree;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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