This is an analysis of the poem The Planting Of The Apple-Tree that begins with:

Come, let us plant the apple-tree.
Cleave the tough greensward with the spade; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbccXdda Aeeddaffa Aeeeeagga Ahhaaaiia addjjahha acckkaaaa aggffaaaa akkllaeea XaaggaeeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 10110001 11010101 11010111 10110101 110100100 11010101 11010101 1110101 11100101 11010101 11000101 11010101 11111101 11010101 011101010 010001010 1110101 11100101 1101010001 01011101 10010111 01011101 01010101 101011101 10110101 1100101 11100101 11110101 11000101 11110111 11010101 11010101 11010101 01110111 10100101 11010101 010111001 11110101 111110001 11011101 11010111 10010101 11010001 0100101 01000101 11110111 11011101 11110101 11011111 11000101 11010101 111100101 00100101 11110101 010101001 010101001 110101110 011101010 00111111 11110111 01010101 00100101 11110101 1101101 11110101 11111100 01011101 11010100 01010101 01111100 010010101 1010011010 01001101 1011111 11010101 01111100 101000111 10011011 101111111 11001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3257
  • Average number of words per stanza: 540
  • Amount of lines: 89
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, of, and are repeated.

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

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