This is an analysis of the poem Trees And The Menace Of Night that begins with:

Trees and the menace of night;
Then a long, lonely, leaden mere... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcbdaefd adcfbfe XbdbfXaXadfbf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,7,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101001 10110101 1101001 1101010011 1101000001 0111010001 11001010001 0111010101 0111010101 110101101000 10010101 110100001 00010001 101001001 10010101000 10110001001 011111 101000 0010111100 0110010101 01000111101 101101 10010001 0111110001 10100111 100111 0101010101 1001010101 101010100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of, dead are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase night connects the lines.

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