This is an analysis of the poem To a Hummingbird that begins with:
Tell us, tell us whence thou comest,
Little thing of the rainbow wing;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc dede dXdf ghgh icic jeje Xklk cecX afae gele mene XaXa dgmg Xngn dlclXanan
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110 10100111 11011110 01111 1111101 00101010 11101001 001010 11101001 10100001 11110101 10001 1101101 00111010 1110011 111110 1011101 10011111 11100101 11101 1011101 11100010 1011111 11010010 1010111 10101001 110011101 10111 1010101 1010101 1010101 100101 11001010 1010001 11101010 11100 1111101 11110100 111100101 110101 11111101 11111111 1111000010 010101 11110101 11111101 0010111 11101 11111110 1110111 110010110 11101 11101010 1011001 11111110 00101 1011111 1111111 10111011 11101 11101010 1111100 00011010 11100 01001110 1011111 00111010 01101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tell, thou, us, thy, and, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, now are repeated.
The author used the same word tell at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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