This is an analysis of the poem A Bird And Flower Upon The Tree that begins with:
A bird and flower upon the tree,
Sweet peony and oriole,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcca aCdXeaaecX fCfeaaecX DXaccD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,9,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100101 11001101 1000011 1110101 011101101 1111011 10111111010110111 1001 110101 11010111 11110011001011 11011111111101 10010111110010 100010111000111 10110101001111 1001 11111111111011 1001 1101111101101 111011111111 1111111001101 1110011010101 11110011111011 10110101001111 1101 1011111 11011100 1011111 1110101 010111101 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, ah, for, of, raptures, that, singing are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ah is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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