This is an analysis of the poem The Withering Of The Boughs that begins with:
I CRIED when the moon was mutmuring to the birds:
'Let peewit call and curlew cry where they will,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXba CA dbdcba CA cecceaXCA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,6,2,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111011100001 11011101110 11111011011001 101101011011011 010111110101 111010110101 111100100101 0111001111011 110010110101 1101101111001 111011001001 111011110101 110111010111 101011110111 111100100101 0111001111011 110010101111 10010111111 0110111001101 11011011011111 0101101100111 1110101101101 111100100101 0111001111011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, have, of, their, so are repeated.
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