This is an analysis of the poem My Lady Is Compared To A Young Tree that begins with:
When I see a young tree
In its white beginning,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbcXcXcXaXdXecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 001010 011 111 10101 001010 001011 111110 110101 101110 00101110 1010001 10011 111010 10111 0101110 0101010 101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 428
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; white is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, a are repeated.
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