This is an analysis of the poem Roots And Leaves Themselves Alone that begins with:

ROOTS and leaves themselves alone are these;
Scents brought to men and women from the wild woods, and from the... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXabXcadXXadcaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010111 11011100011100 11 110110110110110 11 1000101100100110 1010 1001111010101101 1010101110 11010111110101 101001001101011 111011101101011 1000101011 0110100100101011 1100101 01010100101100110 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 938
  • Average number of words per stanza: 152
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, you, to are repeated.

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