This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Redwood-Tree that begins with:

A CALIFORNIA song!
A prophecy and indirection--a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacd efg hXidafjda hhkej Xclhm cfmefcediXeg fghhg agXXjij ehhh XdjXXdbkh XnXjoXnjdmXcfddXmbk dkmbnbbXho hpfpefaaaXXpqh pfredliarebpXXlfij bjfjd mfXqbXjqpjm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,9,5,5,12,5,7,4,9,19,10,14,18,5,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010101 010011000011000111 01001100101100010 010010101100111 100101010011101 11110 11111111110010 111101111 010101 11001111011 0001100100101010 0011110100111 0101010101001011 1 1011011001010011 101 11010101110 010110110101 0111011111111 101101011001000 1001 10111101 10010010011 1001011011011 10010111100111 1100101111001101 010 101101 111100011001 0100101010111110010 1 1011111011 1011010111111001 1 1111010101111100 0100 1101110111011 100101011101 111111 11110001010 11110111 010110110101 1101111101 110110 100101 10100111010111 101101000111011 001111110110100 110100101011101 0100 00000101010 1001001 1101010101 10010100001 10010111 11010100 110101010101 10001010100111011 1010011 110101110110010 1 1101100101 001101010101001 1101111101 1011100 110010001110011110 101101 110101101101111 111110111 101101001010100001001 01110010111 110111000110111 01101000111 110100010011001110 011 1110110001000110 110010 100110101010100010 110101010101111 1010000 11111001011100010 100101 11110101 11011100101 110101010111001000 10 110111010101111 1 11011111110001 1101010111010011 1011 01010110011 010101 110101 001001011010110 1001010 0101110101010 1 1101001111011010 01010110 01001001110010 1110001011010 00011001011011111 00100001011101 0101101001001001000 100101 001010111 0101101001010 010110100101101 0111010101010101 1101010100110110 1 0101010111101010 100 0111010100010110100 0111001 110101001010010 0101101100110101001 110000111110100 111 010011010101010101000 00010 100100100100101010 011010010100100 11111011100101 110111100101 110101000101 1101100101001000 1101 100001110101 010100110100010 01011111011101 01001 01011111111111010 1 110011011101 1101000101001101 1001110100010100100 111 0101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 427
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 145
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; my, farewell, not, heard, of, its, and, our, for, these, them, you, here, to, more, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, farewell, with, the, for, you, here, to are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines not is repeated).

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