This is an analysis of the poem April Inventory that begins with:
The green catalpa tree has turned
All white; the cherry blooms once more....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbb bcbcdd ebebff efefgh ffffii iiiijj klklgg gmgmnn higioo iiiipp
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01100111 11010111 01111101 0111111 01011011 01110101 01111101 01010111 101101001 11000101 01110101 11010101 01111111 11011101 01111111 11110011 01001111 10101101 01110101 11110101 01011101 11110100 11011101 10010100 11011101 01110111 11011011 11110101 111101010 100101010 110111010 111101110 110101010 100111010 11110100 01011101 11110111 011101110 01110111 011111110 11111101 11111101 11111001 110101010 11010101 110111010 11110101 11010101 11010100 11110111 11010011 11011111 10010101 01110011 11111111 110111010 10010001 101011010 100100001 01111100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; i, one, to, that, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to are repeated.
The author used the same words the, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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