This is an analysis of the poem Yardley Oak that begins with:

Survivor sole, and hardly such, of all
That once lived here, thy brethren, at my birth,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefghddcciecfahfijkjagfgliXdhXcjcmbXnjnbccddcijXjdkefeobcdfncccchfalcccejcmijdifjlabcdhhipdnjcffjhfehpgXfomencXXnjkccfbammfcclbiodffipdgiedhafXjgiffffilaffcdeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 162,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101110101 1111110111 1111010101 010100101001 11100101111 1001010101 01010010101 11010011101 0101000101 1111010011 0101000101 1000110101 0100010101 1101110001 0101110101 0101100101 1101010111 1111010101 1001011101 01011111001 1111010101 11110110101 1111010101 0111011001 0111010101 0101100101 0101000101 1100110101 1101010011 11001011101 0100011101 1101001101 1101100101 1001010110 0111110101 1111010101 0101010101 1101001101 100010110001 1111111111 1010011101 10001111001 0101011111 01000101001 11110101001 0101001101 10110010101 01001010101 10001111101 1111111001 1111111101 1101011101 100001101001 1101011101 1001110001 1110111111 1101001101 0111010101 0101010011 1111010111 0101010101 11110111001 1101000101 0101001101 10001011101 0100110111 01001101001 1101011101 11010100101 1001000001 1101110001 1001011101 0101001111 0101010101 0101010101 1100010101 1110011011 01001100101 0111110011 1001010101 11011000101 0101010101 01110001101 1111001001 0111110101 1101010101 0111001111 0111000001 0100111001 1001010001 11110011101 1110011110 1101111101 1101111010 11110111001 01110011001 0101010101 00110010111 10011101001 10111011001 1111110001 0100010101 11010010101 0111010101 00111101001 10011011101 10000111000 0101111111 1101110101 10001101101 0101101111 1111000111 10110100011 1101110110 0101111110 1011011101 0100111101 11000010101 0101111101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 10000010001 1111010001 1111111101 1111000101 0111110111 0101100101 11010011111 1111001111 1101000111 10110101001 1111010011 11001001001 1111011101 10010010101 1111110111 0111010111 1001001101 1101010101 1101011001 1101001010 0111110111 1101010011 1101010101 0111000111 1101111101 1110010001 1101010001 1110010001 1100010101 1011010001 0101010011 01110101010 01010001111 1101010001 0100110101 0011011101 0101001101 1101110111 0101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6982
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1174
  • Amount of lines: 162
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; with, of, thy, thou, and, to, have are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, with are repeated.

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