This is an analysis of the poem The Two Trees that begins with:

BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart,
The holy tree is growing there; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaaaacXcXdedebabaFgfgeeeeXcfcdadacfcF
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010111 01010101 01010101 1101001011 01010001 1100010101 010000101 11010001 01000101 110011100 11111101 100010111 1010101 01010011 1010011 011100101 010011101 1101101 11110101 01010111 11100101 01001101 11011111 11010101 11010101 1010101 1110101 1011101 11110100 00110101 01010100 11110101 11010101 01001001 1010011 1011101 11111101 11110101 11011101 11100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1344
  • Average number of words per stanza: 243
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of The Two Trees;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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