Analysis of The Tree
Karle Wilson Baker 1878 (Little Rock) – 1960
My life is a tree,
Yoke-fellow of the earth;
Pledged,
By roots too deep for remembrance,
To stand hard against the storm,
To fill by Place.
(But high in the branches of my green tree there is a wild
bird singing:
Wind-free are the wings of my bird: she hath built no
mortal nest.)
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) Tetractys (30%) |
| Metre | 11101 110101 1 11111010 1110101 1111 11001011111101 110 111011111111 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 279 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 214 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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