This is an analysis of the poem The Black Birds that begins with:
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Once, only once, I saw it clear, --... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcacbaddedefdgg chchddbibi jjkfjfkabXcbbbckdXhdhdd X lclfcfggeXaebkakaakakkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,15,10,23,1,23,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11011101 11010010111 0101111101 1111010101 101101 010101 0111001101 0101011111 011011 10010011 01001010001 110101 1001010101 0101011111 11010111 00110111 111100 100101010101 01110101 0101100101 110111 1111111101 111110010 110100011 11010 10010101001 0111 100101 10010101 10011101 0111 0101010101 01010111 0101010101 010101010100 0110011101 11000101 1101110001 11111101 010011001 101101 0101110101 010011 11111101001 1111010111 010101001001 01001101 1100011 1 1101110101 110101 01001010111 11010111001 1001010001 1101001101 1101010111 1111011101 1101 111000 10010111 001101 01010101 10010101001 01010001 110101 100100111 1000101001 1101011111 1100110111 0100111111 01110101001 1011000101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 422
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and, with, another, more, dark are repeated.
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- summary of The Black Birds;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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