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

Oh ye who love to overhang the springs,
And stand by running waters, ye whose boughs... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcdecfaghiaajibaiaaedfeakdalfk ekiXidl ebfaagidfeifladXbaciebbemfkmXhmikeeehabn jmidcacan obnafbilmoiliahe dgiclbeXdoafiaeeaeiniemnkaddcdaeolXmb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,7,40,9,16,37,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11110101001 1111010111 11000110111 1101001111 0101010101 1001010101 1111010101 0111110101 010101100111 11000111101 01111111001 110100011111 1111011101 1101110001 0111110111 1100011101 1111001111 001010010101 1111011111 0101111111 1101110111 10111101001 1111101111 11001110101 0101110101 1111010111 1101011101 1111010101 1101110101 0101110101 01000110011 1101010101 1111110011 0011011101 1101010101 0101010001 1101010111 1001010101 101111011 1101111101 0101110111 1100010111 10010011111 110010100 1111011101 1011010101 0100110101 11000100111 1101110101 1111110111 11010101001 1111000111 0101011111 1101110101 10110100001 11101010101 0101010011 01110011001 10010010001 11110010111 0111111101 0100010001 1001010101 1011000101 1111010101 0101110111 0100011101 0101010101 1011011101 0101000111 1011010101 1101010101 0111001101 1111001101 1100110111 1100010111 1101101101 0100110101 1100000101 1101011101 0100010101 0101001101 1011010101 1100110111 1101011101 1101011111 0100110111 10010001001 1111001101 1101110101 10110011101 10010001001 1111011001 11010100101 1111111111 0101010101 1111010111 11010010101 0011101101 1011011101 110011100001 1101010111 0011111111 0101010011 1111001101 1101010101 01011100111 0011011101 1011010111 010100111001 0101010111 1101011100 10010011101 1100110111 01001000111 0101110111 01010100101 1001000101 1111110111 0101100101 1001011111 01001010101 1101001111 0111010111 1101111101 01010010101 0111010101 1011110111 0110110101 1101010111 11100010101 10100100011 0101001111 1101000101 01010101001 1101101101 0101010011 0100010111 0101010101 11010100101 1001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1077
  • Average number of words per stanza: 190
  • Amount of lines: 141
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; your, and, of, in, to are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word ye at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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