This is an analysis of the poem Under The Greenwood Tree that begins with:
Under the greenwood tree
Who loves to lie with me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbCADC eeffCADC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111 110101 110101 100111 110110110 1111 1100 1101110 110101 1101101 100111 110111 110110110 1111 1100 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; come, hither are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word weather at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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