This is an analysis of the poem Light Hearted Author that begins with:
The birches are mad with green points
the wood's edge is burning with their green, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdXadbXXbebb bbfbgXhhegagXgcib efeabfffaffd ieXjjcjXXXdXbde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,17,12,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011011 011010011 1010111 0101100111 1111001011 11011111010 1100010011 1110101011 1011100100 10011110 1101101 010111011 01011001 0010111101 11111010 11101100101 1001011101 01111111 1101001001 101101111 1101 10101110 110101011 11101 10110111 0111110111 0011111011 11011110100 11001101 1101101011 000100011100 1111 110011111 1110110110 0100111001 01011001 01010001010 100010100111 1110100101 1110101 1100101011 1110101 110101101 00011 000111010001 11011101011 111111111 111101 111101 111111011 10111 110110001 0010010010 0111011011010 11101001 1100111100111 10101011101 101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 443
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, one, this, you, me, i, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, your, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines drink is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word world 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 say connects the lines.
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- summary of Light Hearted Author;
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