This is an analysis of the poem On A Great Hollow Tree that begins with:
Preethee stand still awhile, and view this tree
Renown'd and honour'd for antiquitie... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcXaadXXeccXdff gghhbbffiiXagghhXXccffXXffiiXXXjXakXhlXXgjj aaggmmXXffbbiiXXggkaXXfXXellccXXmm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,43,34,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111011101 0111001100 1101011111 0110011111 1000011101 1111110101 110111111 1111011111 0101110101 0101011111 0111001101 1101010011 1101011111 1101110111 0111001101 1100011101 1111010100 1100111100 1011110111 110100010 01001011101 0101011001 0100010101 1110011101 11011010111 1001010101 0011011100 01010010011 0111011110 1111010101 1111011101 1101011111 1101110101 1001010111 110111001101 1101100101 1101001101 1001111111 1101010111 1101110001 11010101100 01011101010 11010111001 0101011001 01110110101 1111011101 1011010101 0010110110111 010011100 0100111100 1100010100 1101111011 1101010100 1010010111 1001110001 1111010101 0111100010 1110111111 1101110011 1101011111 1111010111 110001111 1101010101 1001010101 0101001101 10011101001 10001000101 10010111010 01111101010 1101100011 0111011101 110100101 0100010011 1111011111 11001101101 1101010001 1101010110 0101011111 0111110101 0101111100 11010100101 0101110110 1011111110 1101010101 1001111100 11110100101 11011011001 1110010011 010100111001 1001110111 11001010001 1011011111 01110111001 1101001111 1110100111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1392
- Average number of words per stanza: 249
- Amount of lines: 97
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; to, and, or, this, had are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, by are repeated.
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