This is an analysis of the poem The Tree Of Laughing Bells that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b ababcaaB X deXeXfafghhhabb X ibjbhfafkaka haaaaXhkhddh abhblbbbgbgbclmnX X ahhfOhh X Dkhdkdfdfbd akbkkk X fgdbaDhjggjgjii aiglalhll X kaakkok X dhfOhXhggghclmnmhgaXihgcgfhah X bbgbXghgXcBbkfaBkB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,8,1,15,1,12,12,17,1,7,1,11,6,1,15,9,1,7,1,29,1,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011000 10101 0101010 1011001 010101 10001 0100010 110101 0100101 10100101 110011110 1010010 1100101 10101000 100111 010100 110111 1100110 010101 010101 011101 10011 11111 0010101 010001 0101010101 1100110101010101010 1010101 110101 0010101 011101 1110001 110101 1010101 011101 110111 010111 100101 011111 10010101 1010101 110111 010101 010101 11101 011101 11101 110111 10100101 1010101 0100101 1010101 100101 101010 110111 10101 10101 0100100111 0110100101 100100101 101101001 1010101 110101 101011100 11 11110 101111101 111010 110110 01011101 1110111 00101011 11 100101 101 0101 11010 10111 1110101 11101001001 011111 010101 1010010 101 11110101 101011001 1100101 1100101 1010101 11011001 011101011 110111 110111001 111101 110110110 1 10101 1100111 0011110111 11011101 10111 110111 1110101 01010101 010010111 111001 010011111 111001 101100 111111 010100101 110111 10100111 101101 11011101 110111 1110111 10101 110101 101010 100111 11001001 110101 111011 110111 11001101 00100101 111001100 1100111 110111 11011101 100101 1001001 0001011 1100101 111011111 011100101 10100110101 110101 1011101100 11 11110 11111101 111010 110111 011101 110101 111000 110101 110011 110101 11011100 110101 01100110011 0101101 001011101 111101 111110010010 11000101 1101001 1111101 010111 11110100 00100101 111100101 111101 0100010 101 010111 01010101 01010111 01010 101 01110111 10100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 183
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; to, of, our, i, moon, my, west, in, from are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, our, as, and, gray, o, like, two, west, till, all, three, we, i, from are repeated.

    The author used the same word i 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 buds, gray, keep, hair are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word made at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sway connects the lines.

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  • summary of The Tree Of Laughing Bells;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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